Today's equivalent would be a high-performance desktop processor like an Intel i7 or AMD Ryzen 5.
Today's equivalent would be a high-performance desktop processor like an Intel i7 or AMD Ryzen 5.
They don’t produce anthrax anymore, and I believe that would be around 11,700,000?
Adjusted for inflation, the amount over 6,000 equals approximately $575 in today's purchasing power.
I believe everything increased by eight since then, making a dual-core setup 16 cores with 8 GB RAM seem reasonable. A 64 GB SSD or M.2 drive would be more than enough, which felt excessive at the time. Around 2021 it looked like a solid upgrade, though it did start to show signs of wear. I had to drop it from my configuration because the whole system was quite old. It surprised me how much power that CPU still delivered over the years.
They continue to refer to these as Athlon models, though they mainly focus on budget processors with integrated graphics. https://www.amd.com/en/processors/athlon-desktop
It was established in 2009, so we need to determine its status in 2021.