If you read the article, you'll see that the difference in performance is not that huge: > SPEC CPU 2017 2.62 (base) ~ 3.15 (peak) times slower > PGbench/Post

If you read the article, you'll see that the difference in performance is not that huge: > SPEC CPU 2017 2.62 (base) ~ 3.15 (peak) times slower > PGbench/PostreSQL 1.7 (read only profile) ~ 3.3 (read write profile) times lower So, Elbrus is just 2-3 times slower in these tasks than powerful Intel's CPUs that took millions of dollars to design. As Elbrus has lower clock frequency and larger process node, so this is expected. It is difficult to outperform a CPU that has smaller transistors and more of them; you need either to have more transistors or they have to be smaller; or both. But Elbrus loses a lot in Java tests: > Java 23 ~ 26 times higher response time I guess this could be because Java JIT doesn't support Elbrus architecture.