AmpereOne A192-32X Benchmarks: 192 Core ARM Server Performance & Power Efficiency
First up is a look at the code compilation performance of several large open-source codebases given the popularity of turning to the cloud for CI/CD type deployments and build farms.
In looking at the time to compile Node.js, the AmpereOne A192-32X did very well. The A192-32X could compile Node.js faster than the Intel Xeon 6780E and 6766E Sierra Forest processors! The Xeon 6780E as a reminder tops out at 144 cores compared to 192 cores with AmpereOne and a max turbo frequency of 3.0GHz compared to 3.2GHz with the new Ampere Computing processor. The A192-32X delivered similar build performance to a single Xeon Platinum 8592+ Emerald Rapids processor. The AMD EPYC 9754 Bergamo processor at 128 cores was still delivering much greater performance as were the other tested EPYC 9004 Genoa(X) processors.
The CPU power consumption on average while compiling Node.js was just a bit higher than the Xeon 6780E with a 170 vs. 196 Watt average, The A192-32X did peak higher at 374 Watts compared to the Xeon 6780E Sierra Forest topping out at 300 Watts and the EPYC 9754 Bergamo topping out at 338 Watts. Another item to point out is that the minimum CPU power draw of the A192-32X was much higher than the Sierra Forest and Genoa / Bergamo processors. During brief idle periods the AMD/Intel CPUs were consuming as little as 20~40 Watts but the AmpereOne A192-32X never consumed less than 102 Watts. That minimum CPU power consumption is also significantly higher on AmpereOne than the as little as 21 Watt power draw with the Ampere Altra Max.
When looking at the code compilation speed with the Gem5 codebase, the AmpereOne A192-32X managed to nearly match the EPYC 9754 2P! Surpassing the EPYC 9754 1P and other 1P parts besides the Xeon Platinum 8592+. The AmpereOne 192-core CPU was compiling Gem5 much faster than the prior generation Ampere Altra Max.
When compiling the LLVM compiler codebase, the AmpereOne A192-32X was positioned between the Xeon 6766E and Xeon 6780E Sierra Forest processors.
The AmpereOne A192-32X was consuming slightly more power though than the Xeon 6780E during this test but less than the EPYC 9754 Bergamo processor. The minimum AmpereOne CPU power consumption remained much higher than the other similar Intel and AMD server processors.