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tyingq
Benchmarks and price/performance are going to start getting confusing now that cloud providers are selling a mix of vCPUs where some are real cores, and some are hyperthreads. Amazon's Graviton instances are full cores. I expected that since ARM doesn't have hyperthreads. But now Google is selling EPYC full cores as vCPUs with Tau. I would guess that forces the other providers to follow suit.
MR4D
If we’re lucky, we’ll end up where we need to be - performance per dollar.

But that’s probably a big “if”.

nine_k
Performance is hard to measure as a scalar.
mhh__
There are a few ARM CPUs that do SMT
rbanffy
True, but I suspect that the simpler instruction format makes it much easier to extract parallelism from a single thread than it is with x86's.
bserge
I was under the impression that was already the case with all Intel processors.
fulafel
Terminology nit: s/hyperthread/SMT thread/ - HyperThreading is an Intel marketing name for their implementation of SMT.
merb
actually only the tau instace type is marked as non smt. e2 use ht and smt.

tau is just a different more native workload.

jccalhoun
I was curious about the Altra processor listed in the charts since I hadn't heard of it. It is an Arm processor and it is absolutely huge - even bigger than the Epyc chip. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16315/the-ampere-altra-review