News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Server At Peak X86.

Re:The Server At Peak X86 by bluedino on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:47AM (#12530973)
Google has been quoted as stating if they could get a 20 percent power/performance advantage buy switching to IBM Power they would do so, even if it were only for a single generation.

My question is, wouldn't this be possible with ARM?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Server At Peak X86 by lallysingh on Monday September 19, 2016 @09:16AM (#12531162)
I don't think so. AFAIK, ARM performs well in computation/watt on the low end of computation. But you have to get above a certain performance level to amortize the power overhead of the rest of the computer (motherboard, ram, etc).

But that's mostly a guess.

[ Parent | on HN ]