[Decade]

Benchmark sites like userbenchmark.com and cpu-monkey.com rate the 7-year-old 3.2 GHz Haswell as having roughly the same single-core performance as the 2-year-old 2.1 GHz (3.7 GHz single-core turbo) Zen+ CPU in the DMAF5. But that doesn’t cover the I/O performance, especially with Realtek Ethernet interfaces.

Most mini-PCs are using 2-GHz-or-lower Gemini Lake CPUs with much worse single-core performance, but much better video I/O performance. But that still doesn’t cover network I/O, and Realtek vs Intel. (And Intel i40 vs i211.)

Relatively few people have gigabit Internet, but it can happen suddenly. 3 years ago, I upgraded from 20 Mbps DSL to 1 Gbps symmetric fiber. Bye-bye to my old MIPS 24K router. But all these years later, my brother 1 mile away is still waiting.