alt Hacker NewsA few comparisons just from a gaming PC with a 9800X3D (8C16T 5.2 Ghz Boost).
7 Zip benchmark
9800X3D 130 GIPs compression, 134 GIPs decompress.
C8A 21577 MIPs (21.5GIPs) compression, 9868 MIPS decompression (9.9GIPs).
Geekbench 5
9800X3D 16975 multithread, 2474 single thread
C8A 4049 multithread, 2240 single thread
A desktop class CPU is definitely quicker single threaded and multithreaded, no surprises there most of these are dual core. The single threaded performance of the C8A is actually pretty good but its also the best of the bunch by a wide margin most of the CPUs are far behind. Memory performance appears to be attrocious all around.
Thanks for the benchmarks!
I’d only add that its very common for gaming computers to be screaming fast- moreso than workstation machines or servers which are a bit more conservative with performance and emphasise correctness (slower cores, slower ram, more ECC). Its not a lot, but it can feel annoying when you sit on a company issued workstation that cost €10,000 but get worse performance than a €2,500 gaming computer.