Calxeda 5-watt Web server outshines Intel's Xeon CPU in power efficiency
Calxeda took a quad-core EnergyCore ECX-1000 1.1GHz processor and pitted it against Intel's 3.3GHz Xeon E3-1240.
21 June 2012 Source: http://www.zdnet.com
ARM server specialist Calxeda has benchmarked one of their 5-Watt ARM servers against Intel's Xeon hardware, and report that their ARM hardware is 15 times more power-efficient.
For the test Calxeda took a quad-core EnergyCore ECX-1000 1.1GHz processor and pitted it against Intel's 3.3GHz Xeon E3-1240.
Along with the processors, the test servers were kitted out with 4 GB of DDR3L-1066 RAM, one 1Gb Ethernet network port and a 250 GB SATA 7200 RPM hard drive. The platform ran on Ubuntu Server v12.04 and Apache Server v2.4.2.
ApacheBench v2.3 was used to carry out the benchmarking, and the results speak for themselves.
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