Has anyone benchmarked AWS cpu ? This article alludes to excellent price/performance
But I dont know if it’s even available retail.
No, aws only. Maybe in future amazon might offload some ancient units to secondary market after decommissioning, but I doubt they will. Too much risk for little reward.
It chock full of their custom design addons, and servers its built around are also bespoke made by aws for aws.
It would be like apple selling their design prototypes on ebay instead of destroying them.
But nothing is stopping you from renting some compute time for relative cheap. Decent cost optimized performance, when compared to alternative offerings by AWS.
Phoronix has been tracking all 4 generations of Graviton and publishing benchmarks from the Phoronix Test Suite on AWS hosts:
Graviton 2 vs Epyc (May 2020)
Graviton 2 vs Epyc Rome (June 2020)
Generational comparison Gen1 to gen4 Graviton (Jul 2024)
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Good price to performance for an AWS instance, which is as a general rule compares very poorly in price to performance to buying your own hardware. I’d ignore stuff you read about AWS if you are buying hardware.
Thats given, no? Or does is need to be said expicitly? If you start analyzing cost effectiveness of purchase of hw vs renting 1:1equivakent alone, cloud always loses.
Something like the ampere cpus is probably the closest thing that’s available to consumers (but not as easily as intel/amd)
But these cpus are designed diametrically to gaming cpus. Many efficient cores, running lower speeds. And even if you can get one you’ll be limited to whatever games are available on Linux for arm. Not much