The most interesting thing about the benchmarks is that they show some pretty amazing IPC. The P6-based Pentium M was known for its high IPC, but this 500MHz Elbrus core is more than 50% of the speed of a 1GHz Pentium M. The floating-point results are even better, although perhaps not surprising due to having 4 FP ALUs.
Another set of benchmarks containing an Elbrus is at http://www.7-cpu.com/ and also shows extremely good IPC efficency - it achieves 1.2 MIPS/MHz/core for compression, which is better than all the other non-x86 in that list, and somewhere between Haswell's 1.18 and Ivy Bridge's 1.24.
If they could scale this up to a newer process, they'd probably be equal to if not surpassing Intel's current x86 performance.
Another set of benchmarks containing an Elbrus is at http://www.7-cpu.com/ and also shows extremely good IPC efficency - it achieves 1.2 MIPS/MHz/core for compression, which is better than all the other non-x86 in that list, and somewhere between Haswell's 1.18 and Ivy Bridge's 1.24.
If they could scale this up to a newer process, they'd probably be equal to if not surpassing Intel's current x86 performance.