AMD EPYC 9005 Brings Incredible Performance To The Cloud With Amazon M8a Benchmarks
If you are running HPC workloads on AWS and currently relying on 4th Generation AMD EPYC instances, you should immediately move to 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin".... I've been crazy for AMD EPYC Turin performance over the past year and these cloud results reaffirm all of the bare metal testing. Even at the same core / vCPU counts, AWS M8a instances offer very solid generational upgrades over M7a.
When taking the geo mean of all the benchmarks ran in the cloud, the m8a.8xlarge instance was offering 1.59x the performance of the m7a.8xlarge instance! Going from 4th Gen EPYC to 5th Gen EPYC at the same core/vCPU count. In turn with just a 5% increase to the on-demand per-hour pricing with the AWS EC2 cloud, the M8a instances offer terrific value too compared to M7a.
From Nginx web serving and OpenSSL to more AI/HPC workloads, the AWS M8a instances offered terrific performance and value as a wonderful upgrade from the M7a series. As always if you enjoy these cloud performance benchmarks especially at times like this when needing to pay for the instances out-of-pocket, you can show your support and interest in this testing by joining Phoronix Premium to keep making this testing possible.
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