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Reply 600 of 606, by peterfirefly

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BinaryDemon wrote on Yesterday, 15:04:

What workload/benchmark would you like tested? I always found I had to do a lot of DosBox testing because low end systems would mask performance issues by dropping video frames or audio. Not sure if MartyPC would do the same.

I have a celeron N3350 4gb ram with integrated graphics running Win10. I probably even have some dual core atom thin clients in my basement.

Just having MartyPC boot ordinary DOS with CGA might be a challenge for that machine. Just sitting at the A> prompt with a blinking cursor might be.

This is the microarchitecture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldmont

It's the first Atom microarchitecture that has out-of-order execution but it isn't very wide or deeep.

This is Intel's page about that specific CPU:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/produ … ifications.html

Here are Geekbench's scores:

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-celeron-n3350

For comparison, here's my i3-7100U (Kaby Lake microarch) that used to be on the slower end for MartyPC (older versions):

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i3-7100u

and my current AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS (Zen 4) that should be very nice (haven't tested MartyPC with it yet):

https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-5-8640hs

This is what a Raspberry Pi 5 can deliver:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/9919608

Reply 601 of 606, by BinaryDemon

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So I was wrong about the cpu it’s - Celeron N3450 Quadcore 1.1 ghz that can turbo to 2.2ghz

The startup pc speaker beep sounds drawn out.

Alleycat is playable?

Trying to get a benchmark to run but having issues.

So this is probably what GloriousCow would want to see.. 3.55mhz would be a little on the slow side.

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Reply 602 of 606, by SoftCat

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jal wrote on 2026-01-05, 10:27:

I have a fairly high-end laptop with a Intel Core i7-9750H CPU, which is from 2o19, with both integrated Intel graphics (630) as a discrete NVIDIA Quadra T1000, and MartyPC runs fine.

I see, thanks for the information.

Reply 603 of 606, by SoftCat

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BinaryDemon wrote on Yesterday, 15:04:

What workload/benchmark would you like tested? I always found I had to do a lot of DosBox testing because low end systems would mask performance issues by dropping video frames or audio. Not sure if MartyPC would do the same.

I have a celeron N3350 4gb ram with integrated graphics running Win10. I probably even have some dual core atom thin clients in my basement.

I'm interested in what the minimum CPU is for emulating a PC-XT with CGA.

Reply 604 of 606, by BinaryDemon

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SoftCat wrote on Yesterday, 22:20:

I'm interested in what the minimum CPU is for emulating a PC-XT with CGA.

I’ve run XT Emulators (not MartyPC obviously) on ESP VGA32 devices. Those are 240mhz dual core risc chips.

https://youtu.be/BfOZAfTfuOg?si=6IAEmfiUFy9Ul1oX

It evens runs fast (so I guess less accurate).

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Reply 605 of 606, by SoftCat

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BinaryDemon wrote on Yesterday, 22:47:

I’ve run XT Emulators (not MartyPC obviously) on ESP32 devices.

I'm interested in MartyPC for Windows 10.

Reply 606 of 606, by BinaryDemon

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SoftCat wrote on Yesterday, 22:52:

I'm interested in MartyPC for Windows 10.

Ah, I’d bet modern Celerons could handle it but might want to atleast go i3 to be sure.