CPU or Page Reads

While comparing query performance should i go for CPU values or Page Reads. On live server (with better hardware) a query is showing different CPU when i test it on my local machine. But Page Reads remains same.

Most systems are still I/O-bound, not CPU-bound. If you have a SQL Server system that is not running SSDs and CPU is trumping memory and/or I/O, there is probably a very serious problem. So I would focus on steering queries toward plans that optimize I/O.

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