Google Cloud Tau VM Instances Delivering Better Performance, Value Than Graviton2 M6g

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Cloud Tau VM Instances Delivering Better Performance, Value Than Graviton2 M6g

Announced earlier this year for Google Cloud was a new family of virtual machines called Tau VMs. The initial T2D instances are powered by AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" processors to deliver leading performance and are also positioned to deliver great value in going up against the likes of Amazon's Graviton2 instances. Tau VM instances are now available as a preview and Google has provided us with gratis access to the new instance types for benchmarking.

https://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=30623

[SyXbiT]

I don't think this is as much technically impressive as it is Google subsidising their AMD variant because they don't have a true competitor.

[coder]

That's cool, but didn't Graviton 2 launch almost 2 years ago? Still, it's nice to have options!

[onlyLinuxLuvUBack]

If someone could build some golang benchmark and a nodejs large project/benchmark with multiple modules using webpack those would be interesting benchmarks also.

[PerformanceExpert]

That's cool, but didn't Graviton 2 launch almost 2 years ago? Still, it's nice to have options!

Indeed, it's fairly old and running at a conservative frequency (Altra clocks the same core 32% higher on the same process). The first Neoverse V1/N2 CPUs should be out later this year, so if those end up in a next-gen Graviton things will become interesting, particularly if the claimed 40-50% IPC gain is achieved.

[tildearrow]

Typo:

in some areas there are very wide leafs,

Also, Michael it appears that the article is not linked to this thread for some reason. I hope you can fix that.

[abu_shawarib]

Yes, link is broken.

[dantheperson]

It would be very interesting to see the same benchmarks against GCP N2D machine type. If the 1vCPU=1CPU thing is true, then don't we need only half the number of vCPUs?
That makes T2D considerably cheaper than any other GCP machine type.