A history of the Frog CPUs!

Published on Friday, September 12, 2014 By Brad Wardell In Personal Computing

Forever now, I’ve been naming my PC’s “Frog-<Year purchased>”, Toad for my home machine and Turtle for my laptop and then benchmarking them.  My

Here’s a brief history of their Passmark scores:

Frog-2003 (Dell Pentium IV): 132
Turtle-2006 (ThinkPad T60) 150
Turtle-2007 (ThinkPad T61) 286
Frog-2007 (Dell XPS, Intel Core 2 Extreme) “Total monster” 798
Frog-2008 (Intel Core2 Duo E8200 Alienware Area 51) 2280
Frog-2009 (Intel Core2 Quad Q8300) 3040
Frog-2011 (Core I7-980) 8820
Frog-2014 (Core I7-4960X) 14027
Toad-2014 (Core I7-5960X) 17125