RPi4 : 3.48 Watts -> 30.5 kWh per year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n[\/spb_text_block] [fullwidth_text title=”Analysis” alt_background=”none” width=”1\/1″ el_position=”first last”]\n
The benchmarks confirm that CPUs in modern mid-range phones can compete with x86 \/ x86_64 cores for some applications.<\/p>\n
For high-end applications when very fast response is needed, high end x86_64 CPUs are more than 5 times quicker, but requiring more energy.<\/p>\n
For all the other use cases, phone based server can compete, since they are more efficient to perform the same computing.<\/p>\n
About VPS : We can see that a phone-based server can easily compete with VPS for website hosting, in terms of CPU and probably in terms of efficiency, with a ridiculous 1.6 Watts of power in idle mode for the phone. Of course the VPS tested here has only one CPU core and the phone SoC has 8 cores, so it will be interesting to test how many ‘virtual’ environments can be run on a phone and how it can compete with VPS.<\/p>\n
About Raspberry Pi 4 : First, we can confirm that RPi4 can compete with low-end server for basic tasks in terms of performance. The problem with this new version of the famous board is it’s power management, as mentionned by everyone using this board. The tests were performed with a cooling fan and heat sinks on chips, but for many tests we experienced CPU throttling. The comparison with the Phone is very interesting : RPi4 is about half the computing power of the Phone, but it’s energy is about twice the phone ! So RPi4 is a decent computing platform, but actually not as efficient as phone SoCs and large x86_64 systems.<\/p>\n
In conclusion, we can say that servers based on mid-range phones are really faster than low-end internet servers, and can compete in terms of efficiency with high-end ones when fast performance and response is not needed.<\/p>\n
In the next steps of the project, we will build larger systems with phones and test performance for scientific applications, website hosting and other use cases.<\/p>\n
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