I admire your dedication to the cause
Never did get on with Daytona but the original Sega Rally remains a true arcade racer masterpiece, I remember me and my brother duelling each other over an extended Christmas/New Year visit when he was over one year in the late 90s, and we ended up trying to shave hundredths of a second of each other's race times. (This was on the Saturn version.)
I never bothered with the PC versions of these games at the time, simply because I already had a Saturn and the Saturn versions of the games, and PC gaming was a bit (lol) shonky, what with Windows 95/98 and early iterations of DirectX and the whole thing generally being a blue screen fiesta of disaster. PC gaming was something you did because it was the only place to get stuff like Command & Conquer Red Alert, not because it was your preferred platform......
Back to my spod-land, just for the sake of interest I chucked the CinebenchR15 benchmark at my old PC and my new PC, since they're both fully operational and it's a chance to get a direct comparison of CPU performance between the old i7-920 and the new Ryzen 1700X (the kind of stats that aren't generally available even on THE BIG INTERNETS because it's a relatively obscure comparison to do).
Anyway, you can see below the results. There are:
Single threaded performance for both CPUs, so this is the raw processing power of a single CPU core. I was pleased to see Ryzen considerably faster than the old i7 (about 50%), which of course it should be as it's nearly 10 years newer, but then again it's well known that Intel's architecture has better IPC than Ryzen, but I guess the i7-920 is just too damn old now. It'd be interesting to see numbers for newer i5/i7s. (Although the Ryzen does have a 400MHz speed advantage, so on raw IPC the individual cores really aren't miles apart.)
Quad-threaded performance for both CPUs, as expected the Ryzen is well ahead here but not massively so, less differential than between the single threaded tests.
16-threaded performance from the Ryzen, which needless to say blows the old i7 out of the water.
To be totally fair I should go into the BIOS on the old PC and enable hyper-threading so it can at least have a crack with 8 threads, but it's not got a monitor attached to it or anything else (literally just a power cable and a network cable), so I can't be bothered with that.
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