Cavium ThunderX 96-Core vs. Raptor Talos II POWER9
Tests being worked on by Michael Larabel for a future article.


Cavium ThunderX 96-Core: 

	Processor: Cavium ThunderX (96 Cores), Motherboard: FOXCONN C2U4N_MB (G31FB18A BIOS), Memory: 4 x 32 GB DDR4-2133MHz 36ASF4G72PZ-2G3B1, Disk: 250GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Cavium THUNDERX Interface + Cavium THUNDERX BGX

	OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic (aarch64), Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600

Raptor Talos 2: 

	Processor: POWER9 altivec supported @ 3.80GHz (64 Cores), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.00, Memory: 262144MB, Disk: 500GB MAXTOR STM350063, Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 8192MB, Audio: AMD Ellesmere, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe

	OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-rc4 (ppc64le) 20180307, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.4.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP CUTCP
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 10.21 |==============================================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 9.45  |===========================================


Rodinia 2.4
Test: OpenMP LavaMD
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 66.55 |==============================================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 38.45 |===========================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 17.65 |==============================================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 2.96  |========


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 28749 |==============================================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 25693 |=========================================


x264 2018-02-05
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 24.77 |==========================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 43.05 |==============================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 51487 |=============================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 80510 |==============================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 218.93 |=============================================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 72.94  |===============


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 8.37 |===============================================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 4.63 |==========================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 212.60 |=============================================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 75.53  |================


OpenSSL 1.1.0f
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Raptor Talos 2 . 2096.97 |=====================================================


Java JMH
Throughput
Ops/s > Higher Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 57909467457.14 |=====================================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 3487917744.81  |==


PyBench 2008-08-14
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 11425 |==============================================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 4520  |==================


PyBench 2018-02-16
Total For Average Test Times
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 11645 |==============================================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 4860  |===================


Scikit-Learn 0.17.1

Seconds < Lower Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 1473.95 |============================================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 260.11  |========


AOBench
Size: 2048 x 2048 - Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Cavium ThunderX 96-Core . 235.31 |=============================================
Raptor Talos 2 .......... 68.16  |=============