AMD EPYC Turin vs. Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids vs. Graviton4 Benchmarks With AWS M8 Instances
Moving past the HPC coverage, the 5th Gen EPYC powered M8a instance also provided much better performance than Granite Rapids and Graviton4 for the popular Apache Cassandra database software. M8a pricing is higher than M8g and M8i but delivered the best performance-per-dollar with its very strong performance.
👁 DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Apache Tomcat. m8a.4xlarge was the fastest.
👁 DaCapo Benchmark benchmark with settings of Java Test: Apache Tomcat. m8a.4xlarge was the fastest.
The 5th Gen EPYC powered M8a instance also swept all of the other OpenJDK Java workloads tested from Apache Tomcat to Kafka and others. In some it was a closer race than others. The Graviton4 did provide better value in some of these tested workloads while the Granite Rapids M8i instance wasn't competitive price-wise or for performance.
Even looking at the Zstd compression performance was much faster using M8a than M8i or M8g.