In today's fast-paced digital world, businesses are constantly seeking ways to enhance performance while keeping costs in check. The solution? Upgrading to Google Cloud C4 instances powered by the latest 5th Gen Intel® Xeon® processors. This decision promises to boost computational speed and offer a more budget-friendly approach to managing your cloud infrastructure.
The Objective: Higher Performance and Lower Cost
The primary goal of upgrading to Google Cloud C4 instances is clear: achieve higher performance at a lower cost. GCP contends that C4 is the most performant general-purpose VM for Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) customers. Recent benchmarks have demonstrated that C4 VMs, equipped with Intel's state-of-the-art processors, consistently outperform the competition. Delivering more performance per dollar, they are an ideal choice for businesses looking to maximize their resources.
Benchmark Highlights:
- Compute: SPECrate®2017: Achieve 1.60x the performance and 1.47x the performance-per-dollar.
- Web: NGINX: Experience 2.77x the performance and 2.54x the performance-per-dollar.
- Database: MySQL: Benefit from 1.27x the performance and 1.16x the performance-per-dollar.
- Database: Redis: Gain 2.15x the performance and 1.98x the performance-per-dollar.
- AI: ResNet-50: Enjoy a staggering 5.96x the performance and 5.48x the performance-per-dollar.
Why Google Cloud C4 Instances?
Google Cloud C4 instances on 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are designed to meet the demands of high-performance workloads. With built-in accelerators on every core, these processors are perfect for faster deep learning and model tuning. Enhanced memory bandwidth, larger cache sizes, and improved power efficiency make them ideal for demanding applications.
Key Features:
- AI-Ready with Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (Intel® AMX
With built-in AI acceleration in every core, C4 significantly improves performance for deep-learning inference and fine-tuning on models up to 20 billion parameters. - 4 GHz Single-Core Max Turbo Frequency (the highest in Google Cloud(6)), making it ideal for game servers, financial and Monte Carlo simulations, as well as ML tasks like recommendation systems, image classification, and SLM training, tuning, and inference.
- Flexibility and Power: Switch between core-boosting performance and steady all-core turbo performance, with up to 192 vCPUs and 1.5 TB of DDR5 memory.
- Impressive Connectivity: Support for up to 100 Gbps network bandwidth, with potential for 200 Gbps at Tier_1.(7)
- Consistently High Performance: Designed with a Turbo API, it enables Google Cloud customers to run all vCPUs at all-core Turbo frequency (3.1 GHz) for workloads such as web servers and databases where consistent performance is a priority.
Become AI-Ready Now
For businesses looking to harness the power of AI, the 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors are a perfect fit. Designed with AI in mind, these processors excel in handling demanding AI workloads, including deep learning inference and training on models with up to 20 billion parameters. Benchmarks reveal significant performance improvements for C4 VMs powered by these processors, particularly in ResNet-50 and BERT machine learning models.(5)
Intel® AMX, a built-in accelerator, enhances performance for AI and machine learning tasks, outperforming AMD EPYC by at least 2X in ResNet-50 benchmarking. This makes C4 VMs an ideal choice for businesses aiming to elevate their AI capabilities.
Conclusion: Today's Smart Choice for the Future
Whether your focus is on maximizing performance, reducing costs, or scaling up your operations, Google Cloud C4 VMs with 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors offer a compelling solution. These virtual machines not only provide cutting-edge performance but also ensure cost-efficiency, making them a smart choice for businesses ready to embrace the future of cloud computing.
In a world where performance and cost are critical, the combination of Google Cloud's infrastructure and Intel's advanced processors sets a new standard for what virtual machines can achieve. Embrace the power of C4 VMs and take your business to new heights.
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6 https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/c4-machine-series-is-now-ga
7 https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/general-purpose-machines#c4-highmem
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