As cloud workloads continue to evolve—driven by AI, data-intensive applications, and modern microservices—customers need compute platforms that deliver higher performance, improved efficiency, and superior price-performance.

Today, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is introducing OCI X12 Standard Acceleron Compute instances, powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® 6 processors. These instances represent a significant leap forward in performance, scalability, and value, enabling customers to run demanding enterprise and cloud-native workloads more efficiently.

Exceptional Performance and Value

X12 Standard Acceleron introduces a new level of performance and memory efficiency compared to X9 Standard instances based on 3rd Gen Intel Xeon processors, delivering an average of 1.5× higher performance for general compute workloads on average.

At the core of X12 Standard Acceleron is the Intel Xeon 6900 series with P-cores, purpose-built for next-generation data center demands. Combined with OCI’s latest infrastructure innovations, X12 Standard Acceleron delivers meaningful advancements across compute, memory, networking, and AI acceleration compared to X9 Standard:

  • Double the core density enables greater workload consolidation and higher overall system throughput.
  • Improved per-core performance with enhanced IPC and up to 12% higher max turbo frequency.
  • 33% higher memory bandwidth enabling faster data processing and improved application performance.
  • Built-in AI acceleration with Intel AMX (Advanced Matrix Extensions), boosting performance for inference and AI-driven applications.
  • Oracle Acceleron SmartNIC networking, for higher throughput and advanced capabilities, including enhanced NVMe storage attachments and automated HostNIC patching.

Oracle Acceleron SmartNIC for modern workload performance

X12 Standard Acceleron is built on Oracle Acceleron, OCI’s suite of network software and architecture designed to improve performance, enhance security, and simplify operations. At the core is Oracle Acceleron SmartNIC, which improves throughput per core and per instance while enabling strong isolation, line-rate encryption, and no downtime network patching. It also enables NVMe-based storage acceleration, delivering faster and more efficient data access without the cost and performance penalties of dual-NIC designs.

Flexible Deployment Options

OCI X12 Standard Acceleron Compute offers flexible configurations to meet diverse workload requirements:

  • Bare Metal: Direct access to hardware for maximum performance, with 120 Intel Xeon 6 cores, 1.15 TB memory, and up to 100 Gbps networking.
  • Virtual Machines (Flex): Customizable VM shapes from 1 to 78 OCPUs and up to 720 GB memory, with 1 to 100 Gbps networking for precise rightsizing.
  • Priced to deliver exceptional value at $0.0119 per OCPU-hour and $0.0114 GB-hour.
ShapeOCPUMemoryStorageNetwork
Bare Metal BM.Standard4.Ax.1201201152 GBUp to 1 PB Block100 Gbps
Flex VM VM.Standard4.Ax.Flex1-781-720 GB,  64 GB max per OCPUUp to 1 PB Block1 Gbps – 100 Gbps

Next-Gen Performance Across Multiple Workloads

X12 Standard Acceleron instances, powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors, deliver a significant generational leap in performance—making them a strong choice for a broad spectrum of modern workloads.

  • Compute-intensive workloads: Achieve up to 2.5× higher bare metal performance and ~50% better virtual machine performance (SPECrate® Int & FP) compared to X9 Standard, enabling faster execution of demanding applications.
  • Memory-Intensive applications: With 50% more memory channels and 33% faster DDR5, X12 delivers up to 42% higher memory bandwidth vs X9 Standard, accelerating data-heavy workloads such as analytics and video processing.
  • Cache-sensitive workloads: Larger caches and a more scalable  cache architecture improve efficiency and responsiveness for web servers, databases, caching layers, and gaming workloads.
  • AI Inferencing acceleration: Built in Intel® Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) significantly boosts performance for AI workloads such as NLP, chatbots, recommendation engines, and image recognition.

Modern Infrastructure for Modern Workloads

X12 instances are purpose-built to support the most demanding enterprise workloads, combining cutting-edge performance with the flexibility modern applications require:

  • Broad OS support: Run your workloads on the latest operating systems, including Oracle Linux 8 & 9, Ubuntu 22 & 24, Windows Server 2019 & 2022, and Autonomous Linux.
  • Flexible platform configuration: Fine-tune your environment with control over core counts, hyperthreading, NUMA settings, and more.

Getting Started and Availability

Whether you’re powering advanced analytics, high-throughput transaction systems, real-time applications, or memory-intensive workloads, OCI X12 Standard Compute delivers the performance and flexibility needed to innovate at scale.

OCI Compute X12 Standard Acceleron instances will begin rolling out across select regions today. To get started, visit the OCI Compute page or contact your Oracle representative.

Learn more about the full portfolio of new Oracle Acceleron Instances: Introducing the Next Generation of OCI Compute Shapes