I think you can use `brd` or `ramdisk` (NOT tmpfs) to eat up 48GB of ram on the newer machine. Just make sure you actually write data to the disks so that the memory is allocated.

That should be an easy way to do an apples to apples comparison and not require shipping any hardware.

Saying that you intended to do something, and in the same breath that you were subsequently unable to do said thing, because you couldn't find what was required is very discouraging for a prospective customer. Also, "benchmarking" dissimilar systems comes across as marketing scam, scammy marketing, appealing to the deceivable, which some might view as reprehensible :(

Reprehensible...really? There's lots of that in the world, pretty sure this isn't it. They put the memory difference right there in the stats, it's not like they are hiding it.

Lighten up a bit. :)

Why didn't you just move the 16GB of RAM from the 11th Gen model to the 12th Gen model? Both use DDR4 after all, don't they?

Two different people on the team running the benchmark at two different locations (the challenges of being remote-first). To be clear, had we prioritized it, we could have built two equivalent systems for this benchmark at one site. However, we are mostly focused on building products, so most of our blog posts end up being someone having a interesting topic to discuss and pulling together data and assets we have on hand or can create quickly for it.

could you perhaps rerun it with one process mlockall()-ing 48GB of RAM, so both end up with 16G usable RAM?