Google Axion CPU Performance With The New Google Cloud N4A Instances
From heavy computational workloads to code compilation to databases and scripting language performance, the Google Cloud N4A instances were an all-around winner in performance and value compared to the prior-generation Tau T2A instances. Very solid generational gains and impressive in quantifying the performance uplift from Arm Neoverse N1 to now N3 based cores.
Across the span of around 75 benchmarks carried out, on a geo mean basis when running at the same standard 16 vCPU instance size, the N4A instance delivered 1.77x the performance of the T2A based instance. While the cost of the N4A standard 16 vCPU instance was about 11% higher than T2A, it's easily justified with the much stronger performance to make it the more cost effective option. The Google Cloud N4A instances should also be more energy efficient too but no power sensors/metrics are exposed to the Google Cloud VM to independently quantify that difference.
Thanks to Google for providing the gratis access to the N4A instance family while in preview to be able to run these benchmarks for today's GA debut.
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