Benchmarking Packet.com's Bare Metal Intel Xeon / AMD EPYC Cloud

The Packet "bare metal cloud" options offer quite a diverse range of performance from 40 cents to two dollars per hour, of the instance types we tested. The c2.medium EPYC option was running in line with the m1.xlarge, the $1.70 option that is dual Xeon E5-2650 processors.

On a performance-per-dollar basis, Packet's EPYC option easily offers the best value at just $1.00 per hour for 24 cores / 48 threads of Zen.

In the more demanding LLVM compilation test where the test isn't as parallel due to the time consuming linking phase of the LLVM build process, the EPYC instance came in right behind the more expensive m1.xlarge instance but still squeezed out with offering the best value, should you be looking to the cloud for a possible build farm.

The TTSIOD Renderer performs very well on Intel CPUs where the EPYC instance was aligned with the c1.xlarge instance, the dual Xeon E5-2640 that costs $1.75 per hour. On a performance-per-dollar basis, the EPYC 7401P based server still easily runs out in front for offering the best value over the available Intel Xeon options on Packet.com.