# Ampere CPU

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Ampere CPU and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Ampere's Arm processors for dense server capacity, cheap cloud cores and Linux desktop use. Critics say performance trails AMD and Epyc chips at a similar price.

## Why people recommend it

- Dense, affordable server capacity (2 comments): "Ampere processors natively support both 32 & 64 bit Android applications and require no binary translation for maximum instance density" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646295)) "80 cores for $400 a month seems pretty good" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690723))
- Runs Linux on desktop hardware (2 comments): "Snapdragon laptops, Ampere desktops, or even a Raspberry Pi with an RTX 5090 if you wanted." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064379)) "like some other Arm chip companies (e.g. Ampere) you could boot a generic Linux" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824106))

## What people warn about

- Lags behind AMD in performance (3 comments): "their latest CPUs (which do not impress much) use a custom core" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519015)) "Epyc class of price with not an Epyc class of performance" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934273)) "Unfortunately Ampere has fallen pretty far behind AMD." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46522688))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [AMD EPYC](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-epyc.md): 26 recommend
- [Intel Xeon](https://hackerapproved.com/p/intel-xeon.md): 14 recommend
- [Nvidia Vera CPU](https://hackerapproved.com/p/nvidia-vera-cpu.md): 11 recommend
- [AMD EPYC Turin](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-epyc-turin.md): 8 recommend
- [AMD Opteron](https://hackerapproved.com/p/amd-opteron.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://amperecomputing.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Ampere CPU", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ampere/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).