01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3 hours ago

So these are aarch64, right?

  • adrian_b 3 hours ago

    More specifically, the CPU cores in AWS Graviton5 are Neoverse V3 cores, which implement the Armv9.2-A ISA specification.

    Neoverse V3 is the server version of the Cortex-X4 core which has been used in a large number of smartphones.

    The Neoverse V3 and Cortex-X4 cores are very similar in size and performance with the Intel E-cores Skymont and Darkmont (the E-cores of Arrow Lake and of the future Panther Lake).

    Intel will launch next year a server CPU with Darkmont cores (Clearwater Forest), which will have cores similar to this AWS Graviton5, but for now Intel only has the Sierra Forest server CPUs with E-cores (belonging to the Xeon 6 series), which use much weaker CPU cores than those of the new Graviton5 (i.e. cores equivalent with the Crestmont E-cores of the old Meteor Lake).

    AMD Zen 5 CPUs are significantly better for computationally-intensive workloads, but for general-purpose applications without great computational demands the cores of Graviton5 and also Intel Skymont/Darkmont have greater performance per die area and power consumption, therefore lower cost.

    • sahilagarwal an hour ago

      Do you have any insight on when these will be generally available?

  • watermelon0 3 hours ago

    Yes, Graviton chips are aarch64.