Early benches of recent ARM server CPUs show serious promise
 

There's been a lot of talk in recent months about ARM-based server CPUs in one form or another. While it's been a reasonable assumption that said CPUs would offer impressive performance-per-watt ratios, the big question mark in everyone's mind is probably "how fast are they in absolute terms?" Answers for that question have now started to form thanks to a handful of recently-released benchmarks from academia and industry.

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