That is not what I remember, Pentium was horrible, and even Pentium Pro was horrible too, except not quite as much.
Of course if you compare with an old i486 25SX that’s worse and lacked a floating point unit. But when Pentium MMX came out the AMD 486 DX4 at 120 MHz had been out for a while. You have to compare with the i486 that was available at the same time. I don’t quite remember the details, but here was also AMD K6 and K6-2 that competed well against Intel.
Pentium 2 was decent and a lot better than the original Pentium, and Pentium Pro and Pentium MMX were not very good either. Pentium 3 was very good. Then Pentium 4 was horrible again. And it became AMD with Athlon.
But GPU, RAM and Motherboards were also significant factors in responsiveness back then. Those are generally not an issue for ordinary desktop usage today.
But in the mid 90’s Windows 95 was pretty taxing for just a slightly old computer. Running Windows with a slow GPU/Driver driver would absolutely kill the performance no matter which CPU was onboard.
That is not what I remember, Pentium was horrible, and even Pentium Pro was horrible too, except not quite as much.
Of course if you compare with an old i486 25SX that’s worse and lacked a floating point unit. But when Pentium MMX came out the AMD 486 DX4 at 120 MHz had been out for a while. You have to compare with the i486 that was available at the same time. I don’t quite remember the details, but here was also AMD K6 and K6-2 that competed well against Intel.
Pentium 2 was decent and a lot better than the original Pentium, and Pentium Pro and Pentium MMX were not very good either. Pentium 3 was very good. Then Pentium 4 was horrible again. And it became AMD with Athlon.
But GPU, RAM and Motherboards were also significant factors in responsiveness back then. Those are generally not an issue for ordinary desktop usage today.
But in the mid 90’s Windows 95 was pretty taxing for just a slightly old computer. Running Windows with a slow GPU/Driver driver would absolutely kill the performance no matter which CPU was onboard.