Most of the desktops I saw people using in 2004 had like 256-512MB of RAM, total. They've got 512MB of just graphics memory. And then on top of that its a GPU from 2010, so this isn't "an early 2000s machine" to assess what performance would have been like. Try running on a SiS graphics adapter on-board with 256MB of RAM, and I imagine their results would have been a bit different.
And then they've got a 480GB SSD? That's an absolute monster of a drive for 2004, practically nothing would have come close to the latency and throughput available on that drive. Even a 32GB SSD in 2004.
I always see people remark "wow look how snappy old computers were" when they're essentially built like $10,000 machines if you were to actually have those specs at that time.
Most of the desktops I saw people using in 2004 had like 256-512MB of RAM, total. They've got 512MB of just graphics memory. And then on top of that its a GPU from 2010, so this isn't "an early 2000s machine" to assess what performance would have been like. Try running on a SiS graphics adapter on-board with 256MB of RAM, and I imagine their results would have been a bit different.
And then they've got a 480GB SSD? That's an absolute monster of a drive for 2004, practically nothing would have come close to the latency and throughput available on that drive. Even a 32GB SSD in 2004.
I always see people remark "wow look how snappy old computers were" when they're essentially built like $10,000 machines if you were to actually have those specs at that time.