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Additional benchmarks:

sysbench memory --time=60 --threads=4 run

   AMD64: 5859951.00 per second
   ARM64: 6052749.14 per second
Here ARM had a lead.

Next up I timed compiling nodejs. time make -j4. I ran the test two times and took the faster result for each.

   AMD64: 
      real    28m46.385s
      user    107m48.971s
      sys     5m12.994s
   ARM64:
      real    39m18.443s
      user    146m25.801s
      sys     7m53.271s
Here ARM seems to be roughly 36% slower. This is actually pretty good considering the price difference.

Rescaled the ARM VM to 8 vCPUs:

      real    22m20.624s
      user    162m30.176s
      sys     8m50.104s
So now the ARM offering is noticably faster than the AMD instance but still cheaper. 12.49 Eur vs 13.60 Eur.

What I learn from these benchmarks is that you might get some really good value out of these ARM instances if your usecase is not impacted all too much in terms of performance.



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