AmpereOne Performance In The Cloud With Oracle Cloud A2
There were nice generational improvements from Ampere Altra A1 instances to AmpereOne with A2. This though is just the raw performance with being unable to look at the actual CPU power consumption in the cloud. And no comparison against Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC today in just providing an AArch64 Ampere generational look to keep the cloud costs lower.
For some workloads on a per-core/vCPU basis the A2 instance was just slightly ahead of the A1 instance but a big boost over the 8 OCPU A1 performance -- with Oracle now treating each OCPU on AmpereOne as two cores.
With Oracle Cloud charging $0.014 per OCPU per hour for A2 while being two cores, it's easily much better value over the A1 instances that are $0.01 per OCPU per hour. So on value it easily leads due to twice the number of cores (vCPUs).
That's the very brief initial look at AmpereOne with our first opportunity to test it now being found in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with the A2 instances. There are some nice generational gains in areas like Memcached and PostgreSQL over prior generation Ampere Altra while it will be interesting to see how the power efficiency and performance against AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon stack up when having AmpereOne bare metal servers in the wild.
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