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Re:PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances by uncledave on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:20PM (#25875885)
I’ve played with graviton instances and compiled a few bits of C I use for benchmarking. Not a scientific test but I found them to be good but nowhere near the performance per core as the intel offerings. As a comparison they are nowhere near the Apple M1 either. But that doesn’t mean they’re a bad option.

I think they end up close to same price/performance as the Intel offerings as well once you invoke the compiler optimiser. The main benefit is better core scalability and lower energy usage which may work out as a net gain for database workloads.

As always it’s best to measure these things yourself with your expected workload.

Re:PostgreSQL on ARM-Based AWS EC2 Instances by luhn on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:38PM (#25876632)
Gravitron's value prop is you get 2x the physical cores for a slightly cheaper price. Intel wins at single-thread performance, but for parallel workloads Intel's hyperthreaded vCPUs can't keep up.

But you're right in that in the end it all depends on your workload.