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Alibek
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How to compare PBI Premium capacities with AAS instances in terms of performance?

Hello!

When migrating tabular models from AAS to PBI Premium capacity, we would like to know which pricing tier / capacity level would satisfy our requirements based on what is currently working (AAS tabular models). However, I have not been able to find any mappings from PBI Premium capacities' configurations with AAS instance tiers. They also use different "units" (Capacity Units vs Query Processing Units). Is such a comparison possible, and sensible thing to do?

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Anonymous
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Hi @Alibek,

Perhaps you can take a look at the following links about power bi premium license FAQ and different level of licenses in fabric if they help with your scenario:

Power BI Premium FAQ - Power BI | Microsoft Learn

Microsoft Fabric concepts - Microsoft Fabric | Microsoft Learn
Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

Well, I found a mapping from PBI Premium capacity to Fabric capacity (P1 -> F64), but not to AAS instances.

I've only managed to find some blogpost where they claim that 100 QPUs ~ 5 CPU cores. But PBI capacities use something called Power BI v-cores, which I assume is something different and we need a mapping for that as well.

 

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