AMD EPYC Turin vs. Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids vs. Graviton4 Benchmarks With AWS M8 Instances Review

Comprehensive benchmark comparison of AWS M8 instance types running AMD EPYC Turin, Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids, and Graviton4 processors. Testing used 4xlarge instances (16 vCPUs, 64GB RAM) on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with over 140 benchmarks. Graviton4 offers the best price-per-hour at $0.718, followed by Intel at $0.847 and AMD at $0.974. Key difference: AMD uses physical cores without SMT, while Intel uses Hyper Threading to reach vCPU counts.