$5 Raspberry Pi Zero Compared To Intel's NetBurst CPUs & Newer (phoronix.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 9, 2015 @08:25AM from the compare-and-contrast dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Curious about the performance of a Raspberry Pi Zero, Phoronix has published a number of Raspberry Pi 2 + Pi Zero performance benchmarks with paired power consumption data. They found the Pi Zero performed slower than even an Intel Celeron 320 from the NetBurst era, but that the Raspberry Pi 2 was performing between that Celeron and a Pentium 4 "C" 2.8GHz CPU from 2004. While the Raspberry Pis didn't win in raw performance, the performance-per-Watt of the Raspberry Pi 2 was 220x greater than the Pentium Northwood. The Pi Zero had an average power consumption of 2.7 Watts and the Raspberry Pi 2 was at 3.5 Watts; however, compared to newer Broadwell and Skylake processors, Intel's low-end parts delivered greater power efficiency while the Raspberry Pi had the best value.

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Re:They were hot back then by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-09 09:27 · Score: 5, Informative

Yup, rough lineage:
P5: Pentium -> Pentium MMX -> nothing for a long time -> early Atom -> MIC
P6: PPro -> P-II -> P-III -> Pentium M -> Core/Core2 -> Nehalem/Westmere -> Sandy/Ivy -> Haswell/Broadwell -> Skylake
P68: Pentium4