Google TauVM AMD EPYC vs. M6g Graviton2 Benchmarks Initial Google Tau VM AMD EPYC Milan benchmarking compared to Amazon EC2 M6g instances for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. t2d-standard-8: Processor: AMD EPYC 7B13 (8 Cores), Motherboard: Google Compute Engine t2d-standard-8, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 11GB PersistentDisk + 107GB PersistentDisk OS: Debian 10, Kernel: 4.19.0-17-cloud-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM t2d-standard-32: Processor: AMD EPYC 7B13 (32 Cores), Motherboard: Google Compute Engine t2d-standard-32, Memory: 124GB, Disk: 11GB PersistentDisk + 107GB PersistentDisk OS: Debian 10, Kernel: 4.19.0-17-cloud-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 8.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM m6g.2xlarge: Processor: ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 (8 Cores), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m6g.2xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Amazon Device 0200, Memory: 32GB, Disk: 107GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Debian 10, Kernel: 4.19.0-14-arm64 (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 8.3.0, File-System: ext4 m6g.8xlarge: Processor: ARMv8 Neoverse-N1 (32 Cores), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m6g.8xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Amazon Device 0200, Memory: 124GB, Disk: 107GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Debian 10, Kernel: 4.19.0-14-arm64 (aarch64), Compiler: GCC 8.3.0, File-System: ext4 Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL (1 Core / 2 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 t3.medium (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 86GB Amazon Elastic Block Store + 107GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Graphics: llvmpipe, Network: 2 x Amazon Elastic OS: Amazon 2, Kernel: 5.10.68-62.173.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: MATE 1.24.1, Display Server: X Server, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.4 (LLVM 6.0 256 bits), Vulkan: 1.0.61, Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180712, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x983, System Layer: amazon John The Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 10796 |=========== t2d-standard-32 ............ 42732 |=========================================== m6g.2xlarge ................ 5183 |===== m6g.8xlarge ................ 20648 |===================== Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 1226 |= John The Ripper 1.9.0-jumbo-1 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 812530 |========== t2d-standard-32 ............ 3210333 |========================================= m6g.2xlarge ................ 185258 |== m6g.8xlarge ................ 721783 |========= Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 110302 |= GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 Operation: Swirl Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 340 |============ t2d-standard-32 ............ 1248 |============================================ m6g.2xlarge ................ 269 |========= m6g.8xlarge ................ 1006 |=================================== Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 27 |= GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 89 |============ t2d-standard-32 ............ 346 |============================================= m6g.2xlarge ................ 74 |========== m6g.8xlarge ................ 267 |=================================== Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 9 |= GraphicsMagick 1.3.33 Operation: Enhanced Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 149 |============ t2d-standard-32 ............ 573 |============================================= m6g.2xlarge ................ 103 |======== m6g.8xlarge ................ 401 |=============================== Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 14 |= dav1d 0.9.2 Video Input: Summer Nature 4K FPS > Higher Is Better t2d-standard-8 .. 136.96 |====================== t2d-standard-32 . 326.48 |===================================================== m6g.2xlarge ..... 78.21 |============= m6g.8xlarge ..... 198.26 |================================ 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 38830 |============ t2d-standard-32 ............ 133228 |========================================== m6g.2xlarge ................ 27799 |========= m6g.8xlarge ................ 109417 |================================== Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 4117 |= Timed FFmpeg Compilation 4.4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 71.04 |====== t2d-standard-32 ............ 30.71 |== m6g.2xlarge ................ 84.16 |======= m6g.8xlarge ................ 32.67 |=== Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 519.85 |========================================== Timed GDB GNU Debugger Compilation 10.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 71.62 |============================== t2d-standard-32 ............ 43.82 |================== m6g.2xlarge ................ 100.21 |========================================== m6g.8xlarge ................ 63.43 |=========================== Timed Node.js Compilation 15.11 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 554.72 |===== t2d-standard-32 ............ 165.28 |== m6g.2xlarge ................ 761.42 |======= m6g.8xlarge ................ 234.10 |== Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 4362.75 |========================================= Build2 0.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 139.93 |===== t2d-standard-32 ............ 57.70 |== m6g.2xlarge ................ 183.08 |======= m6g.8xlarge ................ 78.06 |=== Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 1067.70 |========================================= OpenSSL 3.0 Algorithm: SHA256 byte/s > Higher Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 6659560627 |========== t2d-standard-32 ............ 25739835653 |===================================== m6g.2xlarge ................ 5527759170 |======== m6g.8xlarge ................ 22078459950 |================================ PostgreSQL pgbench 14.0 Scaling Factor: 100 - Clients: 250 - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 152289 |========== t2d-standard-32 ............ 617961 |========================================== m6g.2xlarge ................ 87873 |====== m6g.8xlarge ................ 406665 |============================ Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 10089 |= PostgreSQL pgbench 14.0 Scaling Factor: 100 - Clients: 250 - Mode: Read Only - Average Latency ms < Lower Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 1.642 |=== t2d-standard-32 ............ 0.405 |= m6g.2xlarge ................ 2.845 |===== m6g.8xlarge ................ 0.615 |= Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 24.906 |========================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 14.0 Scaling Factor: 100 - Clients: 500 - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 143763 |========== t2d-standard-32 ............ 605373 |========================================== m6g.2xlarge ................ 82474 |====== m6g.8xlarge ................ 347544 |======================== Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 4699 | PostgreSQL pgbench 14.0 Scaling Factor: 100 - Clients: 500 - Mode: Read Only - Average Latency ms < Lower Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 3.488 |= t2d-standard-32 ............ 0.826 | m6g.2xlarge ................ 6.073 |= m6g.8xlarge ................ 1.439 | Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 262.845 |========================================= Basis Universal 1.13 Settings: UASTC Level 2 Seconds < Lower Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 37.68 |================================ t2d-standard-32 ............ 14.97 |============= m6g.2xlarge ................ 50.23 |=========================================== m6g.8xlarge ................ 19.18 |================ Basis Universal 1.13 Settings: UASTC Level 3 Seconds < Lower Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 74.77 |================================ t2d-standard-32 ............ 24.76 |=========== m6g.2xlarge ................ 99.64 |=========================================== m6g.8xlarge ................ 31.59 |============== Stress-NG 0.13.02 Test: Crypto Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 1650.02 |=========== t2d-standard-32 ............ 6218.86 |========================================= m6g.2xlarge ................ 1257.57 |======== m6g.8xlarge ................ 5030.58 |================================= Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 168.40 |= Stress-NG 0.13.02 Test: Vector Math Bogo Ops/s > Higher Is Better t2d-standard-8 ............. 20807.29 |=========== t2d-standard-32 ............ 78739.94 |======================================== m6g.2xlarge ................ 17255.17 |========= m6g.8xlarge ................ 69034.73 |=================================== Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL . 2533.84 |=