Early look at Amazon's Graviton2 Arm chip, expected to be publicly available in a few months, suggests better performance per dollar on EC2 than Intel chips
It's been a year and a half since Amazon released their first-generation Graviton Arm-based processor core, publicly available in AWS EC2 as the so-called ‘A1’ instances. Tweets: @timbray , @oimauriciogomes , @whatthebit , @anandtech , @jeffunderhill , @oz_skywalker , @haerwu , @dcominottim , @mjasay , and @iancutress . Thanks: @iancutress Tweets: Tim Bray / @timbray : I do love me a good old-fashioned CPU benchmark throwdown: https://anandtech.com/... Congrats to AnandTech for the fine work here. Most shocking page in the lengthy piece is entitled “Cost Analysis - An x86 Massacre”: https://anandtech.com/... [Fun!] Mauricio Gomes / @oimauriciogomes : Wow, the new Amazon Graviton2 processors going to be right up there with Xeon and Epyc chips. That advent of ARM is closer than predicted. https://www.anandtech.com/... Stefan Constantine / @whatthebit : “If you're an EC2 customer today, and unless you're tied to x86 for whatever reason, you'd be stupid not to switch over to Graviton2 instances once they become available, as the cost savings will be significant.” $AMZN $INTC $AMD https://www.anandtech.com/... @anandtech : After many false starts, the era of Arm servers is finally here. Today @andreif7 is taking a look at Amazon's Graviton2, a server SoC based on Arm Neoverse N1. Pitted against AWS's Intel and AMD instances, Graviton2 proves it can be a datacenter contender https://www.anandtech.com/... https://twitter.com/... Jeff Underhill / @jeffunderhill : New article: @anandtech #Graviton2 deep dive - TL;DR “not only were Amazon and @Arm able to deliver on all of their promises, but they've also hit it out of the park in terms of value against the incumbent players” - have you signed up for M6g preview? https://www.anandtech.com/... Luke Walker / @oz_skywalker : Everyone's eyes-on #AWS's Graviton2 processors, and it's hard not to when you start seeing 5x performance increases, while being 20% cheaper. Here's #KeyDB's breakdown —> https://docs.keydb.dev/... https://twitter.com/... Marcin Juszkiewicz / @haerwu : “The chip is not only able to compete in terms of raw throughput thanks to its 64 physical cores in a single socket, but it also manages to showcase competitive single-thread performance, keeping in line with AMD and Intel systems in the market.” Worth reading! https://twitter.com/... @dcominottim : As expected by those without an x86 bias, Graviton2/N1 are absolute game changers. (Rome's numbers will be included later, but Graviton2 already beats Cascade Lake and the perf/cost is a bloodbath for poor x86). Congrats to the awesome Amazon and ARM people! #SiliconGang https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Matt Asay / @mjasay : “Fun” because I remember back when ARM was considered underpowered (in 2000 when I worked for Lineo, an embedded Linux vendor, ARM was good for things like phones/vending machines https://t.co/...). Cool to see ARM architectures meeting (or beating) x86 cost/performance https://twitter.com/... Dr. Ian Cutress / @iancutress : A raw CPU and memory performance analysis of the next stage of cloud computing, with @amazon's home-built Graviton2 @Arm-based processor. Can Arm finally succeed in this space? Tip @Techmeme https://twitter.com/... Thanks: @iancutress