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Deliver your cloud applications faster with Gcore virtual machines powered by the Ampere® Altra® Max 128-core processor.

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Gcore Virtual Instances now support configurations based on Ampere® Altra® Max processors. These processors feature an innovative 64-bit ARM server-based architecture optimized for cloud workloads. By using these virtual machines, our customers can significantly accelerate the delivery of their cloud-native applications.

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Ampere Altra Max processors

Ampere Altra Max is the industry’s first cloud-native, 128-core processor. It is built on a 64-bit ARM-based architecture to meet the demands of modern data centers and scalable cloud applications. Ampere Altra Max delivers predictable high performance, linear scalability, and power efficiency for data center deployments from the hyperscale cloud to the edge cloud.

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HIGH PERFORMANCE

Ampere Altra Max has 128 cores with each core running at up to 3.0 GHz. This cloud-optimized processor helps to maximize overall performance and cores-per-rack density.

High performance

SCALABILITY

Ampere Altra Max is ideal for applications that take advantage of scale-out and elastic cloud architectures. The processor offers the industry’s highest socket-level performance and I/O scalability.

Scalability

POWER EFFICIENCY

Ampere Altra Max provides industry-leading power efficiency/core, establishing new levels of power efficiency.

Power efficiency

Unprecedented

performance

The table below shows the results of a performance comparison of Ampere, Intel, and AMD processors on a single node running typical workloads. On average, Ampere is 2.5x faster than Intel Xeon 3rd Gen and 1.7x faster than AMD EPYC 3rd Gen.

Efficiency footnotes
Web tier App How Ampere compares to
Intel Xeon 3rd Gen
How Ampere compares to
AMD EPYC 3rd Gen
Frontend Nginx 3.5x faster 2x faster
Caching Memcached 2.1x faster 1.5x faster
Key value store Redis 2.6x faster 1.6x faster
Backend MySQL 1.6x faster 1.6x faster
Complex web service average 2.5x faster 1.7x faster

VMs for any

Cloud workload

Powerfull platform

Gcore virtual machines are hosted on HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 servers, equipped with Ampere Altra Max processors and engineered for cloud applications.

HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11

Cloud-native by nature

The Ampere Altra Max CPU is designed to meet high performance and scalability demands of modern cloud workloads, including machine learning, video encoding, and in-memory caching.

Cost effective

Gcore VMs with Ampere Altra Max processors is a robust IaaS solution for delivering advanced cloud applications without requiring significant capital and time investments.

Vsevolod Vayner

Vsevolod Vayner

Gcore Cloud Edge Product Director

“We are excited to partner with Ampere and bring their innovative processors to our Cloud. Together, we can provide our customers with powerful and efficient virtual machines that will strengthen their efforts to deliver and maintain modern cloud applications.”

Jeff Wittich

Jeff Wittich

Ampere Chief Product Officer

“Our collaboration with Gcore is an important step in providing cloud-native solutions that meet the needs of today's most demanding cloud workloads. Working together allows us to extend the reach of our Ampere® Altra® processor family and bring its performance benefits to a broader range of customers.”

Vsevolod Vayner

Vsevolod Vayner

Gcore Cloud Edge Product Director

“We are excited to partner with Ampere and bring their innovative processors to our Cloud. Together, we can provide our customers with powerful and efficient virtual machines that will strengthen their efforts to deliver and maintain modern cloud applications.”

Jeff Wittich

Jeff Wittich

Ampere Chief Product Officer

“Our collaboration with Gcore is an important step in providing cloud-native solutions that meet the needs of today's most demanding cloud workloads. Working together allows us to extend the reach of our Ampere® Altra® processor family and bring its performance benefits to a broader range of customers.”

Vsevolod Vayner

Vsevolod Vayner

Gcore Cloud Edge Product Director

“We are excited to partner with Ampere and bring their innovative processors to our Cloud. Together, we can provide our customers with powerful and efficient virtual machines that will strengthen their efforts to deliver and maintain modern cloud applications.”

Jeff Wittich

Jeff Wittich

Ampere Chief Product Officer

“Our collaboration with Gcore is an important step in providing cloud-native solutions that meet the needs of today's most demanding cloud workloads. Working together allows us to extend the reach of our Ampere® Altra® processor family and bring its performance benefits to a broader range of customers.”

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