By: Gionatan Danti (g.danti.delete@this.assyoma.it),
Room: Moderated Discussions
From Anandtech
"The new Graviton2 SoC is a custom design by Amazon’s own in-house silicon design teams and is a successor to the first-generation Graviton chip. The new chip quadruples the core count from 16 cores to 64 cores and employs Arm’s newest Neoverse N1 cores. Amazon is using the highest performance configuration available, with 1MB L2 caches per core, with all 64 cores connected by a mesh fabric supporting 2TB/s aggregate bandwidth as well as integrating 32MB of L3 cache. Amazon claims the new Graviton2 chip is can deliver up to 7x higher performance than the first generation based A1 instances, and delivers memory access speed of up to 5x compared to its predecessor."
It is a very interesting chip, indeed.
Considering AMD Zen2 (and soon Zen3) on x86 side and Amazon SoC on ARM side, does it means any non-cloud 3rd party ARM server vendor (eg: Cavium) are doomed?
"The new Graviton2 SoC is a custom design by Amazon’s own in-house silicon design teams and is a successor to the first-generation Graviton chip. The new chip quadruples the core count from 16 cores to 64 cores and employs Arm’s newest Neoverse N1 cores. Amazon is using the highest performance configuration available, with 1MB L2 caches per core, with all 64 cores connected by a mesh fabric supporting 2TB/s aggregate bandwidth as well as integrating 32MB of L3 cache. Amazon claims the new Graviton2 chip is can deliver up to 7x higher performance than the first generation based A1 instances, and delivers memory access speed of up to 5x compared to its predecessor."
It is a very interesting chip, indeed.
Considering AMD Zen2 (and soon Zen3) on x86 side and Amazon SoC on ARM side, does it means any non-cloud 3rd party ARM server vendor (eg: Cavium) are doomed?
