Comments on: AWS Graviton3 Hits GA with 3 Sockets Per Motherboard Designs

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 27 May 2022 02:14:24 +0000

Moved over to G7 and it has been a dramatic shift from G6. In fact dropped down 1 instance size and still achieving 60% improvement over G6. Something doesn’t compute, but loving the performance.

By: Eric Olson

Eric Olson — Wed, 25 May 2022 18:42:46 +0000

For a mixture of floating-point and integer computations that include a prime sieve, sorting, Fourier transform and a dynamical simulation I find the Graviton 3 to be about 1.7 times faster than the Graviton 2 and 3.3 times faster than the original Graviton.

On the same benchmark the Graviton 3 appears 1.4 times faster than the ARM Altra-based instances in the Oracle cloud.

I wonder how the per-core speed compares to the performance cores from Apple.

By: Orin

Orin — Tue, 24 May 2022 23:49:06 +0000

@Mark Rose that’s only if you have the code to compile. If you’re running a managed service on Graviton you aren’t running it on another cloud vendor.

By: Jmk

Jmk — Tue, 24 May 2022 15:54:12 +0000

But a Z system isn’t running a different image on coprocessors.

By: Jmk

Jmk — Tue, 24 May 2022 15:42:05 +0000

Triad or ternary tablature?

By: Mark Rose

Mark Rose — Tue, 24 May 2022 05:04:14 +0000

Graviton isn’t really a lock-in. You can always recompile your code and run it on another platform. I have Xeon, Epyc, and Graviton systems in production.