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Re:The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performan... by dspillett on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:36AM (#25468038)
> slower than on my...

May have consumed far less power doing the job though. For server farms performance-per-watt can be far more important than absolute speed per unit, especially for massively parallel tasks.

Re:The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performan... by spamizbad on Friday December 18, 2020 @11:02AM (#25468345)
Cavium ThunderX2 is a 205 TDP chip vs a circa 2017 i7 (~105W) so probably not.