I was doing similar comparisons of a cluster of 6 Pi 2s vs my Core i7, as well as DigitalOcean droplets, and I found that the i7 (quad core, single chip, running 6 VMs) was at least 20% faster in real world use, and using six DigitalOcean 1GB VMs was about 68% faster: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pidramble.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;drupal" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pidramble.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;drupal</a><p>There are tons of different use cases of course, and if measuring only raw CPU (not network, not IO, etc.), the benchmarks could be slightly closer, but I&#x27;m not going to recommend clients start ditching cloud infra for colocated Pi clusters :)