Benchmarking Language Model Performance on 5th Gen Xeon at GCP — C4 delivers 10x throughput

AI Impact Summary

This benchmarking report demonstrates a significant performance advantage for Google Cloud Compute Engine C4 instances over N2 instances when running agentic AI workloads, specifically text embedding and text generation. The C4 instance, powered by the 5th Gen Intel Xeon Emerald Rapids processor with AMX, achieved 10x to 24x higher throughput in text embedding and 2.3x to 3.6x higher throughput in text generation, indicating a substantial improvement in processing speed. These results highlight the potential of leveraging newer CPU architectures like AMX for efficient AI deployments, particularly for smaller, lightweight agentic AI solutions.