This story is going around like a firestorm, but reality is a bit different. They quote Dhrystones and CoreMark, both of which are terrible and should be avoided. By their own admission in Slack comments: "We have run the SPECInt2006 benchmark with -O2 compilation option. The performance of XT-910 is 6.11 SPECInt/GHz, which is ~10% lower than the 6.75 SPECInt/GHz delivered by Cortex-A73."