Performance Evaluation of Volcano Engine 4th Gen Instances with AMD EPYC™ “Turin (Zen 5)” CPUs and Intel® Xeon® “Granite Rapids” CPUs (8 - 64 vCPUs)
Cloud instance architecture plays a crucial role in determining workload scalability, efficiency, and overall infrastructure performance. With the introduction of its latest generation of compute instances, Volcano Engine now includes x86-based offerings powered by AMD EPYC™ “Turin (Zen 5)” and Intel® Xeon® “Granite Rapids” processors. These enhancements bring improved compute performance, memory bandwidth, and energy efficiency, enabling enterprises to deploy a wide range of workloads with greater flexibility and optimized total cost of ownership.
This paper presents Infobell IT’s independent performance evaluation of Volcano Engine’s AMD EPYC™ and Intel® Xeon® - based instance families across 8, 16, 32, and 64 vCPU configurations. The evaluation covers both general-purpose (g4al, g4il, g4ie) and compute-optimized (c4al, c4il) instance types, providing a detailed comparison of performance, throughput, and scalability across the two processor architectures under identical test conditions.
Using a consistent and rigorous testing methodology, the benchmarks include Java business workloads (SPECjbb®2015), CPU-intensive tasks (SPEC CPU®2017), media encoding and transcoding (FFmpeg), data structure and cache operations (Redis), and server-side/database workloads (NGINX, MySQL TPC-C). This comprehensive assessment delivers a balanced view of both real-world and synthetic performance scenarios, helping organizations identify the optimal instance configurations for their application and infrastructure needs within the Volcano Engine environment.