Google Cloud Tau VM Instances Deliver Better Performance, Price-Performance Than Graviton2 M6g

While there may be some differences in the code paths between x86_64 and AArch64 in various applications, across a variety of different code-bases tested for compile time speeds the T2D instances were coming out ahead -- often by wide margins with the lone exception of the 32 vCPU FFmpeg compilation process being quite close.

The Tau T2D VM instances tested were also leading when it came to the OpenSSL performance both for raw performance and performance-per-dollar.

PostgreSQL 14 also was delivering better performance on the Tau T2D VM family.