[haricm]

We wanted to keep the clocks out of the picture. This I must admit, is a little unfair, because having the ability to run at higher clocks is indeed a capability of the CPU, which cannot be discounted. In this case I compared a Cortex-A15 Vs an Core i3. The A15s can run at max 2GHz I think. While the Core i3 cores can run upto 3GHz. However ARM has Cortex A57 coming along, which I believe will have similar performance to the A15 and will be able to run at higher clocks too. Of course we need to wait for the A57 to appear on an actual SOC and measure it, before we can truly make that claim.

[baq]

i guess nobody really cares about clocks. what people care about is either maximum performance or max performance per watt (cpu and/or whole system). you should be benchmarking for those two scores.