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 4 of 4. 4 Comments.
GROMACS benchmark with settings of Implementation: MPI CPU, Input: water_GMX50_bare. C4A Axion highmem was the fastest.
RocksDB benchmark with settings of Test: Random Read. C4A Axion was the fastest.
RocksDB benchmark with settings of Test: Update Random. R8g.12xlarge Graviton4 was the fastest.
RocksDB benchmark with settings of Test: Read While Writing. R8g.12xlarge Graviton4 was the fastest.
RocksDB benchmark with settings of Test: Read Random Write Random. R8g.12xlarge Graviton4 was the fastest.

Overall it was a great showing for Google Axion with the C4A up against Graviton4 in Amazon's EC2 cloud. Those wanting to go through all the raw benchmarks in full can find the data via this result page where you can also compare the performance per dollar per hour and similar based upon your local/available pricing, etc.

Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, Google Axion C4A vs. AWS Graviton4 Benchmarks. C4A Axion was the fastest.

Across the few dozen benchmarks conducted, while both Graviton4 and Axion are based on the Neoverse-V2 design, the C4A instance at 48 vCPUs was about 10% faster than the 48 vCPU Graviton4 instance using the r8g.12xlarge type.

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