m6g.metal Graviton2 vs. Ampere Altra Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 tests against Amazon Graviton2 m6g.metal for possible future article. m6g.metal Graviton2 64c: Processor: ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 (64 Cores), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m6g.metal v1.0, Memory: 252GB, Disk: 94GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-1029-aws (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4 Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c: Processor: Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 @ 3.30GHz (64 Cores), Motherboard: WIWYNN Mt.Jade (1.1.20201019 BIOS), Chipset: Ampere Computing LLC Device e100, Memory: 16 x 32 GB DDR4-3200MT/s Samsung M393A4K40DB3-CWE, Disk: 3841GB Micron_9300_MTFDHAL3T8TDP + 960GB SAMSUNG MZ1LB960HAJQ-00007, Graphics: ASPEED, Network: Mellanox MT28908 + Intel I210 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-58-generic (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c: Processor: Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 @ 3.30GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: WIWYNN Mt.Jade (1.1.20201019 BIOS), Chipset: Ampere Computing LLC Device e100, Memory: 16 x 32 GB DDR4-3200MT/s Samsung M393A4K40DB3-CWE, Disk: 3841GB Micron_9300_MTFDHAL3T8TDP + 960GB SAMSUNG MZ1LB960HAJQ-00007, Graphics: ASPEED, Monitor: VE228, Network: Mellanox MT28908 + Intel I210 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-58-generic (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c: Processor: Ampere Altra ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 @ 3.30GHz (160 Cores), Motherboard: WIWYNN Mt.Jade (1.1.20201019 BIOS), Chipset: Ampere Computing LLC Device e100, Memory: 16 x 32 GB DDR4-3200MT/s Samsung M393A4K40DB3-CWE, Disk: 3841GB Micron_9300_MTFDHAL3T8TDP + 960GB SAMSUNG MZ1LB960HAJQ-00007, Graphics: ASPEED, Monitor: VE228, Network: Mellanox MT28908 + Intel I210 OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Kernel: 5.4.0-58-generic (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 9.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 165514.7 |=========================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 162886.4 |=========================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 162465.9 |========================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 239685.8 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 170932.8 |======================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 167747.4 |======================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 165070.5 |======================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 272185.3 |======================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 170481.7 |========================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 166546.2 |======================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 166228.6 |======================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 266737.9 |======================================= High Performance Conjugate Gradient 3.1 GFLOP/s > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 21.44 |==================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 22.46 |===================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 22.71 |===================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 44.91 |========================================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 25752636.4 |============================ Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 33950617.1 |===================================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 33953700.0 |===================================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 33963046.2 |===================================== LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 3 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 37.34 |================================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 48.16 |========================================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 47.07 |========================================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 48.17 |========================================== LZ4 Compression 1.9.3 Compression Level: 9 - Compression Speed MB/s > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 35.72 |================================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 44.37 |========================================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 43.84 |======================================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 46.01 |========================================== John The Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 44218 |==================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 50803 |======================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 48711 |======================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 90773 |========================================== Coremark 1.0 CoreMark Size 666 - Iterations Per Second Iterations/Sec > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 1205893.12 |============== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 1551293.00 |================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 1854977.71 |===================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 3256887.00 |===================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel Seconds < Lower Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 15.604 |========================================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 12.047 |================================ Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 9.454 |========================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 4.907 |============= m-queens 1.2 Time To Solve Seconds < Lower Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 19.439 |========================================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 14.857 |=============================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 12.035 |========================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 6.551 |============== GROMACS 2020.3 Water Benchmark Ns Per Day > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 2.761 |================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 2.835 |================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 3.871 |========================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 6.611 |========================================== ASTC Encoder 2.0 Preset: Exhaustive Seconds < Lower Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 70.73 |========================================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 60.82 |==================================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 49.12 |============================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 28.67 |================= Stress-NG 0.11.07 Test: Crypto Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 11355.88 |============ Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 15037.10 |================ Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 18691.07 |==================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 36316.96 |======================================= Stress-NG 0.11.07 Test: CPU Stress Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 7228.57 |============ Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 9415.04 |================ Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 11784.05 |==================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 23501.47 |======================================= Stress-NG 0.11.07 Test: Matrix Math Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 256330.06 |============ Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 311734.28 |============== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 420159.19 |=================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 819104.51 |====================================== Stress-NG 0.11.07 Test: Vector Math Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 353821.34 |=========== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 465202.12 |=============== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 577961.07 |=================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 1143937.07 |===================================== Stress-NG 0.11.07 Test: Context Switching Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 19337654.56 |=============== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 18513502.97 |=============== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 22953240.38 |================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 45404883.10 |==================================== TNN 0.2.3 Target: CPU - Model: MobileNet v2 ms < Lower Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 355.26 |========================================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 300.42 |=================================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 291.32 |================================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 311.93 |==================================== TNN 0.2.3 Target: CPU - Model: SqueezeNet v1.1 ms < Lower Is Better m6g.metal Graviton2 64c ..... 332.79 |========================================= Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 64c .. 255.60 |=============================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 1P 80c .. 251.55 |=============================== Ampere Altra Q80-33 2P 160c . 267.86 |=================================