In a recent paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing journal, it was pointed out that Alibaba's YunTian 710, released in 2021, is currently the best-performing and most energy-efficient Arm architecture cloud service processor.
The YunTian 710 from Alibaba is manufactured using 5nm technology, features a pure 64-bit Armv9 instruction set architecture, 128 cores, with 1MB L2 cache per core, a shared 64MB L3 cache, a maximum clock speed of 3.2GHz, supports eight-channel DDR5 memory, and 96 PCIe 5.0 lanes.
Alibaba claims it to be the most powerful ARM server chip in the industry, surpassing the industry benchmark by 20%, with a more than 50% increase in energy efficiency, primarily used in Alibaba Cloud data centers.
This test compared several competing products, including Intel Xeon Platinum 8848C (32C/3.2GHz/105MB), Kunpeng 920 (60C/2.4GHz/32MB), Ampere Altra (80C/3GHz/32MB), and Amazon Graviton 2/3 (64C/2.5/2.6GHz/32MB).
Among them, Intel uses the x86 instruction set, while the others all use the Armv8 instruction set.
In the eight tests, compared to competitors with the same Arm architecture, Alibaba's Yitian 710 was consistently "far ahead," with the only mediocre performance being in Excel.
Even when compared to the x86 architecture's Xeon Platinum 8848C, it also holds its own, performing at a similar level in both the Dhrystone and Whetstone projects.
The paper also points out that the Ali Yitian 710 not only boasts outstanding performance but also features a leading instruction set, DDR5 memory, PCIe 5.0 channels, a larger L3 cache, all achieved as early as 2021.
