Last week Qualcomm announced that it had started to ship its new 10nm Centriq 2400 processors. These 'Falkor' CPU ARM-based processors pack up to 48 cores and are built for fast and energy efficient cloud computing tasks. At the time Qualcomm published various charts and graphs highlighting the best features of its Centriq 2400 processors and made headline claims that the top of the range 48 core Centriq 2460 processor "offers greater than 4X better performance per dollar and up to 45% better performance per watt" and is priced at $1995.
Wouldn't it be interesting to see some real-life comparison tests by a cloud computing giant? Luckily Cloudflare engineer Vlad Krasnov has published a blog post on how the latest Qualcomm Centriq server processor / platform stacks up against the plethora of Broadwell and Skylake Xeon based servers it already deploys for cloud computing tasks.
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