The Ampere Altra Max Review: Pushing it to 128 Cores per Socket
by Andrei Frumusanu on October 7, 2021 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
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- Neoverse N1
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- Altra Max
SPEC - Single-Threaded Performance
Single-threaded performance is important for some more real-world workloads, although for the Altra Max which advertises itself as a throughput machine for hyperscaler use, it’s probably only a very edge-case scenario metric.
We don’t expect much of the chip here, given it’s halved SLC size, and 10% lower frequencies compared to the Q80-33.
As one would think, the M128-30 doesn’t have much going for it in such a load scenario, showcasing 8-15% lower scores than the Q80-33, and falling behind most of the competitive pack, except for the 2.6GHz clocked Graviton2.
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Unashamed_unoriginal_username_x86 - Thursday, October 7, 2021 - link
M112-30 in the table on first page says 96 cores?Andrei Frumusanu - Friday, October 8, 2021 - link
That was a typo.Unashamed_unoriginal_username_x86 - Friday, October 8, 2021 - link
I'm glad we agreenandnandnand - Thursday, October 7, 2021 - link
Let's all run out and buy the $800 32-core.mode_13h - Friday, October 8, 2021 - link
Add in platform costs and it's not going to look like much of a bargain compared with a Threadripper or Xeon W-3300 system.mode_13h - Friday, October 8, 2021 - link
Of course, if you happen to need specifically an ARM-based workstation, I'm not aware of any better option than Altra.Brutalizer - Sunday, October 10, 2021 - link
The old SPARC T8 cpu with 32 cores, is still almost faster than all these cpus. Here in the SPECjbb2015, a single cpu achieves 153.500 max, and 90.000 crit.https://blogs.oracle.com/bestperf/specjbb2015:-spa...
Wilco1 - Sunday, October 10, 2021 - link
Those are results based on weeks/months of tuning, so not at all comparable with this review (the same is true for SPEC scores). In your link a 1S 8180 does 84100 max-jOPS, while the faster 8280 gets 81700 in this review. Similarly the best critical-jOPS is 62600 for the 8180 while the 8280 gets just 47900.Sudharshan Anbarasu - Sunday, October 17, 2021 - link
How about Monero Mining performance...Since $(cache) plays major role in x86 platform, curious to know how it works in Arm architecture.