PERFORMANCE

• Power consumption, heat dissipation
• Physical size, ruggedness
• Noise generation, immunity
• Compatibility, reliability, availability
• Performance
  • On important applications
  • Peak
  • On standard benchmarks
  • Predictability
  • Ease of programming
  • Code and data size
  • Responsiveness
  • Throughput

Power, size, noise, reliability, cost (?) easy to measure