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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

A then-representative $200USD device had 4-8 slow (in-order, low-cache) cores, ~2GiB of RAM, and relatively slow MLC NAND flash storage. The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. low-end Androids have finally caught up to the iPhone 5 from 2012. The Moto G4 , for example.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile. They will also have up to 256MB of L3 cache per processor. You might be asking why you should care about all of this as a SQL Server Database professional? Figure 2: AMD EPYC Rome Processor.

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