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YouTuber gets classic Tomb Raider running on a chip that sips a mere 1 W of power - The SoC in question is the ESP32-P4 microcontroller, a lightweight 32-bit RISC-V processor featuring two cores (www.pcgamer.com)
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[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

The ESP32 seems to even do more MIPS per Mhz that the original Pentium, so it's even faster than a 400mhz pentium would be. Computationally at least

Edit: apparently the Pentium was actually much faster at 64-bit floating point calculations (ESP32 has to do 2 32-bit operations and combine in software), but I don't think that's an issue here

Guess it depends on how tomb raider was written. Even on 32-bit CPUs games like quake were still doing 64-bit math

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