Google Axion CPU With GCE C4A vs. AWS Graviton4 Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 8 November 2024 at 09:00 AM EST. Page 2 of 4. 4 Comments.
Rodinia benchmark with settings of Test: OpenMP CFD Solver. C4A Axion highmem was the fastest.
Pennant benchmark with settings of Test: sedovbig. C4A Axion was the fastest.
Pennant benchmark with settings of Test: leblancbig. C4A Axion was the fastest.
Xcompact3d Incompact3d benchmark with settings of Input: input.i3d 193 Cells Per Direction. C4A Axion was the fastest.
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator benchmark with settings of Model: 20k Atoms. C4A Axion highmem was the fastest.
LULESH benchmark with settings of . C4A Axion was the fastest.
Xmrig benchmark with settings of Variant: GhostRider, Hash Count: 1M. R8g.12xlarge Graviton4 was the fastest.

For many of the HPC benchmarks, the performance was similar between Axion and Graviton4 as would be largely expected with both being based on the Arm Neoverse-V2 core design. In some of the benchmarks the Axion performance was slightly better than Graviton4.

CloverLeaf benchmark with settings of Input: clover_bm64_short. R8g.12xlarge Graviton4 was the fastest.
Algebraic Multi-Grid Benchmark benchmark with settings of . R8g.12xlarge Graviton4 was the fastest.

In some of the very memory bandwidth bound HPC tests the Graviton4 CPU had the upper-hand over C4A Axion.

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