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Snowflake Gen2 vs. Gen1: performance and cost analysis (seemoredata.io)
2 points by yanivleven 173 days ago
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Snowflake Gen2 warehouses deliver 30-60% faster performance through improved CPU architecture, wider vector throughput, and faster memory bandwidth. But they cost 25% more per second (35% on AWS). Which queries run fast enough on Gen2 to offset the higher cost?