Comment Re:power consumption? (Score 2, Interesting) 208
Well, I'd suggest the right question is, how much does this one benchmark matter?
Well, the article does not even convince me that the benchmark was properly executed. When going from a 32-bit to a 64-bit architecture, you certainly need the code to be properly optimized for the new target architecture. For instance, if you do not use the new instructions, it is unlikely you will see a major performance improvement. If you normalize the benchmark result to clock speed and number of cores there is not much difference between the 2 processors.
So my guess is: they did not properly compile the benchmark.