We’ve just done a performance comparison of one of our little dedicated servers versus a dual core VM hosted on VMware through another provider. The VMware machine has two cores of an Intel Xeon E5530 (Westmere) at 2.4Ghz, we have four hyperthreaded cores of an i7-3615QM (Ivy Bridge) at 2.3Ghz. Both machines are running the … Continue reading Power efficiency