[bklyn11201]

Is this about availability? Meaning that purchasing the Arm Neoverse that Graviton2 is based on, is too difficult if not operating at massive scale?

This Anandtech review has a page called "An X86 Massacre":

https://www.anandtech.com/show/15578/cloud-clash-amazon-grav...

Are giants like Apple and AWS just making it impossible for a player like Cloudflare to buy enough of the leading-edge Arm processors? And Epyc performs so well, and it's easy to buy, so they wait another year?

[kllrnohj]

> This Anandtech review has a page called "An X86 Massacre":

Note that Anandtech was only comparing against chips that had already been replaced. They did that comparison like a few days before Amazon started offering Epyc Rome instances. See https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=epyc-vs-... for a more like for like comparison, and the results are brutal for the N1:

"When taking the geometric mean of all these benchmarks, the EPYC 7742 without SMT enabled was about 46% faster than the Graviton2 bare metal performance. The EPYC 7742 with SMT (128 threads) increased the lead to about 51%, due to not all of the benchmarks being multi-thread focused."

[neurostimulant]

Is there any vendor that sell pre-build arm neoverse right now? I only found thunderx2 arm servers, but can't seem to find any arm neoverse server sold anywhere. Thunderx3 is using neoverse architecture, but I can't find it sold anywhere right now.

[imtringued]

Availability of ARM servers is trending down to zero. It's pretty funny to see all these people talk about meaningless things like benchmarks when ARM vendors can't even get the business side to work out.