Amazon suddenly became a competitor to both Intel and AMD in the server CPU market

While both Intel and AMD are facing each other, an unexpected competitor is quietly gaining their market share, especially in the fertile server and cloud market. That is Amazon.

In a test conducted by Andrei Frumusanu of Anandtech, Amazon's new server CPU, Graviton2, showed a score that surpassed those of Intel and AMD server processors in terms of performance level compared to chi. charge out.

The test was performed with Graviton2 and AMD EPYC 7571 and Intel Xeon Platinum 8259CL Cascade Lake, two processors currently being used by Amazon for its cloud services. Andrei discovered that Graviton2 CPUs save up to 54% in cost compared to Intel and AMD CPUs - a finding that could cause "a huge earthquake for the AWS and EC2 ecosystems."

So how does Amazon achieve this great result?

This processor was created in the Annapurna Labs with 64 ARM Cortex A76 cores packed inside. CPU has 33MB cache and very high clock speed. Amazon is currently the only customer of Annapurna Labs, which means the processor has been tweaked to be completely optimized for AWS workloads.

Therefore, according to Andrei, unless you must use the x86 platform, you will "be foolish not to switch to using instances with Graviton2", as they are increasingly popular, from VPN services ( AWS VPN) to web hosting (AWS Light Sail).

AMD is currently preparing to launch EPYC2 to cope with the pressure coming from Graviton2 - at least until Graviton3 is released.