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Comment by classichasclass

7 years ago

It's a nice system, and definitely cheaper, but it isn't a reasonable price comparison as it isn't even remotely in the same performance ballpark as POWER9.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=arm-24co...

Depends on the workload and the # of cores in the POWER9 chip(s). The Socionext has 24 cores!

Edit: Admittedly only massively parallel workloads will be faster than the POWER9, and only if the POWER9 has limited cores. A bit of a stretch for most use cases.