Ampere Altra Cloud Native Processors lead in performance for popular cloud native applications while running at lower power than legacy x86 processors. Ampere Altra Cloud Native Processors are the ideal CPUs with which to build out a high performance and high efficiency cloud. Building out this infrastructure with inherently cloud native technology delivers predictable and scalable performance.

Performance leadership can be demonstrated using SPEC CPU^® 2017 Integer Rate, the industry standard for general purpose processors. Ampere Altra CPU based VMs in Google Cloud lead on SPEC CPU^® 2017 Integer Rate Estimated compared to legacy x86 VMs. On Google Cloud, the T2A VM instances outperform current generation x86 VMs by up to 31% and lead on price-performance by up to 65% using on-demand pricing guidance¹. In this case, we compared high end x86 VM instance, n2-standard-32 to t2a-standard-32.

The performance and price-performance leadership is not limited to SPEC CPU^® 2017 Integer Rate but a wide variety of Cloud Native workloads such as web and application servers, databases, Artificial Intelligence, video processing and more will showcase similar efficiency.

¹ Based on est. SPEC CPU^®2017 Integer Rate Estimated for n2-standard-32, t2a-standard-32 VMs running on Debian 11 and compiled with gcc 10.2.1, -O3, -mcpu=native JEMalloc 5.2.1

Price performance was calculated from Google Cloud VM Instance Pricing, for T2A-32 (Ampere Altra) VMs July, 2022. Memory and storage is same across all the VM’s, and hence not included.