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[PerformanceExpert]

You do realize that ~15% of all of AWS instances is Graviton? That sounds like Arm is displacing x86 already....

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And according to AnandTech's review it typically uses 200W or less. So that 250W TDP is hard to actually reach and that's why most code (except power...

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Ampere Altra $4050 / 80 = $50.6 per core. Benchmarks are already on AnandTech. Beware - it isn't pretty. In fact it is embarrassing. A old Graviton 2...

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There is no doubt there will be faster supercomputers in the future, but today Arm is #1 without using GPUs. Remember this was a reply to a comment claiming...

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The fastest super computer is A64FX. The fastest server is Ampere Altra (yes it beats not only Rome but also Milan). All Arm based....

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There are many ARMv8 cores that don't implement ARMv7 - iOS dropped 32-bit support in 2017 and the latest Ax cores no longer support it (there is no emulation...

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Indeed, it's incredible how quickly Arm has taken the server performance lead. Ampere Altra beats AMD Milan by 1% on 1S SPECINT_rate, and that's using...