ARM Takes Wing: Qualcomm vs. Intel CPU comparison

Vlad Krasnov took the privileged chance of being able to compare the newest server processors at Cloudflare and wrote up what he found out. The result is pretty interesting: Qualcomm achieves a similar performance to the fastest Intel processors but only needs about 30% less power, sometimes even less. So while there might be some issues with software incompatibilities with the newer chips by Qualcomm, it’s going to be interesting what happens on the server market. Because at large data centers it’s quite important to save energy—not only because our planet benefits from less power consumption but also because it’s simply cheaper.