Review video of the Amazon AWS Graviton2 ARM 64-core cloud server

NicoD SBC · 11-27-2020, 04:28 PM

Hi all.
I've made a video where I benchmark an AWS Graviton2 ARM64 cloud server.
It's an amazing beast, clocked at 2.5Ghz.
This might not sound that much, but it performs better than anything else per clock.
The cores are based on the high performance Neoverse N1 ARM cores.

I also reviewed the Threadripper 3990x last week, and the Ampere 32-core @ 3.3Ghz ARM64 server.
So I compare the performance of the AWS server with these 2.

Here the link to my video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZMnSBV1qJk

I'm normally an ARM single board computer reviewer, and share my videos in the subforum for SBCs. But not much new boards are coming out lately.

Here my Threadripper 3990x review video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwUb1nt51J0

And here my video about the Ampere 32-core @ 3.3Ghz server
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BtuFqj9YeQ

Here my gathered information about the AWS Graviton2 server.

Code:

AWS Server 32-cores 128GB
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NEOVERSE N1 64-core AWS Graviton2
ARMv8.2 aarch64
Arm’s Neoverse N1 cores -> based on A76 -> almost identical to Arm’s 64-core reference N1 platform -> CPU cores are clocked a bit lower 2.5GHz and only 32MB instead of 64MB of L3 cache
Max speed 2500Mhz
8-channel DDR-3200
128GB ram
64 PCIe4 lanes
TSMC’s 7nm process node
~1W per core at the 2.5GHz frequency
between 80W as a low estimate to around 110W estimation. This info is not disclosed by AWS

7z single core
Ampere 32-core     : 2763
AWS 32-core        : 3393
Threadripper 3990x : 4545


7z quad core   :  
Raspberry Pi 4 @ 1.5Ghz :  6307
Odroid N2+ 4xA73@2.4Ghz :  9900
Ampere 32-core          : 11145
AWS 32-core             : 13733
Threadripper 3990x      : 18060

7z all cores   : 
Ampere 32-core     :  85975
AWS 32-core        : 110628
Threadripper 3990x : 391809   433702 OC



Blender BMW CPU
Odroid N2+         : 30m
Ampere 32-core     :  8m27s
AWS Server 32-core :  2m08s
ThreadRipper 3990x :    30s

Blender Barber shop CPU 
AWS Server 32-core : 8m28s
Threadripper 3990x : 2m18s79

CPU Miner
Odroid N2+         :   14
Ampere 32-core     :   87
AWS Server 32-core :  154.20
ThreadRipper 3990x : 1310

SBC bench : http://ix.io/2FrG

Internet speed test between 1500 Mbit/s and 2000 Mbit/s both up- and download (up to 250MB/s)

I had 32-cores of the 64-cores. It is expected to perform a bit worse per core with 64-cores vs 32-cores since less cache available per core.

There's a newer Ampere 80-core N1 at 3Ghz SoC.

Greetings, NicoD.