Computer Speed Gains Erased By Modern Software
hackaday.com
[Julio] has an older computer sitting on a desk, and recorded a quick video with it showing how fast this computer can do seemingly simple things, like open default Windows applications including t…

Interesting take on comparability vs performance. I gotta imaging capturing user data and sending to a cloud collector is also a big culprit.

  • redcalciumEnglish
    10•2 years ago

    Single thread performance matter more when your metric is the speed of opening calculator, terminal and other apps. However, the 5900x has pretty good single thread performance already, roughly 1.5x faster than my old processor (i7-4790) and opening apps is pretty fast in my case (<1 second). Something is probably wrong with your setup. Perhaps you accidentally set your desktop power mode to “power saver” instead of “performance”?

    • @themusicmanEnglish
      8•2 years ago

      Opening a calculator/terminal should be on the order of 1ms or even faster. 1s is absurd

      • redcalciumEnglish
        5•2 years ago

        Alas, I’m using gnome so ~1s calculator launch is the best I can get 😬

    • @0ddysseusEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      Yeah there does seem to be something wrong now that I can see it. Now just need to work out what it is…

    • @0ddysseusEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Yeah there does seem to be something wrong now that I can see it. Now just need to work out what it is…

    • @0ddysseusEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Thanks for the tip, I went digging through the system settings and then r/KDE and the problem is nvidia drivers apparently. Need to get rid of this old GPU and get a nice AMD unit