Three years ago, yes, or $10 ones now. But the current $80-$200 machines with either 1.85 GHz 3-wide OoO (TH1520: Lichee Pi 4A, Beagle "Ahead", others coming...) or even 1.5 GHz 2-wide in-order (JH7110: VisionFive 2, Star64, others coming...) are several times faster, per core.
And you can shortly get that 1.85 GHz 3-wide OoO in a 64 core chip, on single- and dual-socket motherboards (64 or 128 cores), with quad-socket coming soon. I've been using such a machine via ssh since March, customer deliveries will start in a couple of months.
And you can shortly get that 1.85 GHz 3-wide OoO in a 64 core chip, on single- and dual-socket motherboards (64 or 128 cores), with quad-socket coming soon. I've been using such a machine via ssh since March, customer deliveries will start in a couple of months.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/milkv/milk-v-pioneer