> While ARM-based instance is 25 percent cheaper, it is able to show a 15-20% performance gain in most of the tests over the corresponding x86 based instances.
To put this into Workload per Dollar. Graviton 2 on AWS is roughly 50% to 60% cheaper. Now not every workload will benefits, there are many CPU intensive workload especially those benefits from SIMD won't work as well on current Graviton 2. But there are enough workloads especially those dealing with Web Stack has shown huge cost savings.
Hopefully this add perspective when people are thinking Intel's Server Platform is still relatively safe. I wrote something about it here [1].
To put this into Workload per Dollar. Graviton 2 on AWS is roughly 50% to 60% cheaper. Now not every workload will benefits, there are many CPU intensive workload especially those benefits from SIMD won't work as well on current Graviton 2. But there are enough workloads especially those dealing with Web Stack has shown huge cost savings.
Hopefully this add perspective when people are thinking Intel's Server Platform is still relatively safe. I wrote something about it here [1].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25808856