Hacker News Reader

> Given the Pi is a low-cost device, it's not terrible unreasonable to at least compare it to the 20-50 Gflop CPUs of that period.

What specific chips do you have in mind? By that same benchmark, an i3-3210 has 58.9Gflops. So that's still 4x higher, and 8x higher per core.

I was looking at this:

Kinda just went with the bottom half of the 2010-2014 era chips.

That list isn’t limited to actual laptop/desktop chips.

If it ends in E it’s an embedded chip for stuff like smart refrigerators etc. LE/LM are for even lower power devices.

I would suggest looking at actual cheap laptops from 2012 if you want to see what the low end actually looked like.

A lot of the sub 50 GFLOP stuff were low-end Laptop chips with regular M-suffixes.

These are mobile Ivybridge chips, they were not snappy, and as late as 2013 release dates for sub 50 GFLOPs.