See Google's paper 'Brawny cores still beat wimpy cores, most of the time'. It concludes that 'Slower but energy efficient “wimpy” cores only win for general wo

See Google's paper 'Brawny cores still beat wimpy cores, most of the time'. It concludes that 'Slower but energy efficient “wimpy” cores only win for general workloads if their single-core speed is reasonably close to that of mid-range “brawny” cores.' http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/36448.pdf http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/36448.pdf HTML version at http://bit.ly/KOhENi http://bit.ly/KOhENi