Amazon's New EC2 M7a AMD EPYC "Genoa" Instances Deliver Leading Performance In The AWS Cloud

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 17 August 2023 at 11:26 AM EDT. Page 5 of 6. 3 Comments.
7-Zip Compression benchmark with settings of Test: Compression Rating. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.
Stockfish benchmark with settings of Total Time. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.

When Amazon introduced the Graviton3 processors they had a leg-up over AMD and Intel in various areas while now AMD has pushed the computing envelope further... It will be interesting to see how AWS will go with presumably Graviton4.

Timed Gem5 Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.
Timed Godot Game Engine Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.
Timed Node.js Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.
Timed Node.js Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.

For those looking at the M7a instances for build farm purposes or CI/CD, the build speeds with the m7a.16xlarge instance was great.

OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: SHA256. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: RSA4096. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: ChaCha20. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: AES-128-GCM. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: AES-256-GCM. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: ChaCha20-Poly1305. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: ChaCha20-Poly1305. m7a.16xlarge AMD Zen 4 was the fastest.

The OpenSSL performance was excellent for the M7a instance with a huge speed-up generationally and outperforming the competition. The OpenSSL benchmarks were also among the few areas where the newer Graviton3E instances had a distinct advantage over Graviton3.


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