alextheblue :
Most of these comparisons are against general purpose processors.
It turns out that's all you need to do. According to
Amdahl's Law, a N-wide parallel implementation of a classical computer can only ever be N times as fast as one of those computing elements. So, all you need to show is that a quantum computer can out-scale classical computers.
alextheblue :
This article doesn't say ANYTHING about the hardware in question.
Anyway, did you check the paper the article is
about? It's really not couched in specifics of particular modern computing systems, but rather trying to demonstrate a fundamental characteristic of quantum computers vs. classical ones.
Hint: Lucian always cites his source right at the top (as do most authors on this site). On the linked arxiv.org page, you'll find a PDF link to the paper.