Benchmarks Of Google's Axion Arm-based CPU: Competitive Performance & Compelling Value

[coder]

Hey Michael, thanks for the test! I think a comparison with Graviton4 would be interesting too.

I agree that this would be the most relevant point of comparison (i.e. with both being cloud CPUs), but let's not forget that Nvidia is also using the Neoverse V2 cores in Grace and they match Axion in terms of core count. My expectation is that Nvidia's Grace is using higher clockspeeds and has more memory bandwidth, but performance should be broadly similar.

I wonder if Nvidia, Amazon, and Google are all using ARM's interconnect fabric, or if any are using a custom fabric.

[lowflyer]

The charts show that Google apparently has terrific engineers. However, the level of brainpower decreases significantly when it comes to naming something. `Axion` is notoriously overused:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

An axion is a hypothetical elementary particle.

Axion may also refer to:

• Axion (mythology), the name of two mythological figures
• Axion (brand), a brand of dishwashing liquid product marketed by Colgate-Palmolive
• Axion (beetle), a genus of lady beetles
• "Axion Estin" or "It is Truly Meet", a hymn of the Eastern Orthodox and Greek-Catholic Churches
  • "To Axion Esti", a poem by Odysseas Elytis
• Montreal Axion, a Canadian hockey team
• Cable Axion, a Canadian cable television distributor and Internet service provider
• Claas Axion, a French tractor
• Axion (tribe), a Tribe that existed in Lenape
• Axxion, a guitar model produced by ESP Dave Mustaine

[lichtenstein]

FTA: "For those curious how Google Axion compares to AWS Graviton4, that will be coming up in a separate article on Phoronix in the next few days."

This is what I get when I only look at the charts in the article! Thanks, Michael! I'm looking forward to those results .

[Michael]

Hey Michael, thanks for the test! I think a comparison with Graviton4 would be interesting too.

FTA: "For those curious how Google Axion compares to AWS Graviton4, that will be coming up in a separate article on Phoronix in the next few days."

[fotomar]

Very impressive

[lichtenstein]

Hey Michael, thanks for the test! I think a comparison with Graviton4 would be interesting too.

[jwbee]

I feel like you should not be concerned about the lack of power consumption metrics. In the cloud, cost =~ energy, to a very close approximation. So if it costs less, it's drawing less power.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Benchmarks Of Google's Axion Arm-based CPU: Competitive Performance & Compelling Value

Earlier this year Google announced Axion as their first Arm-based CPU for the Google Cloud. Today already they are taking Axion to general availability with the new C4A instances. These new C4A instances are advertised as offering up to 50% better performance and up to 60% better energy efficiency than their current generation x86 instance types. In this article are some of the first public independent performance benchmarks of the Google Axion CPU along with comparing to existing GCE Arm and x86_64 instance types.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/google-axion-c4a