Talos II Raptor POWER9 System AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon vs. POWER9 CPUs article vs i9-7900X Raptor Talos II: 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 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MT/s Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD EPYC 7601: Processor: AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN B8026T70AE24HR (V0.05.B10 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 8 x 16384 MB DDR4-2666MT/s Samsung M393A2K40BB2-CTD, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD EPYC 7551: Processor: AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core @ 2.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0-00 v01010101 (F03 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 2 x Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB, Graphics: llvmpipe 28032MB, Audio: NVIDIA GM204 HD Audio, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel i9-7900X: Processor: Intel Core i9-7900X @ 4.50GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS TUF X299 MARK 2 (1004 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 48128MB, Disk: 2 x 2000GB Western Digital WD20EZRX-00D + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00M + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARS-00J + 2000GB Western Digital WD20EARX-00P + Samsung SSD 960 PRO 512GB, Graphics: llvmpipe 11178MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-22-generic (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.0-rc5 (LLVM 6.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0 + Clang 5.0.1-4 + CUDA 9.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP LBM Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 66.08 |======================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 30.18 |================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 37.39 |====================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 71.88 |=========================================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 75.10 |============================================= Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 9.69 |============================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 2.28 |=========== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 2.61 |============ AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 2.76 |============= Intel i9-7900X ........... 4.84 |======================= Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 10.51 |=========================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 6.01 |================ AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 14.26 |===================================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 17.35 |============================================= Intel i9-7900X ........... 12.14 |=============================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 817.44 |============================================ 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 397.43 |===================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 256.15 |============== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 355.63 |=================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 81.67 |==== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 38.58 |=========================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 27.10 |=================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 32.59 |======================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 34.79 |========================= Intel i9-7900X ........... 63.76 |============================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 19.09 |============================================ 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 10.00 |======================= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 10.71 |========================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 12.27 |============================ Intel i9-7900X ........... 19.40 |============================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 27.80 |=========================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 14.51 |======================= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 17.46 |=========================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 28.79 |============================================= Intel i9-7900X ........... 14.37 |====================== x264 2018-02-05 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 43.72 |=============== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 127.28 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 128.17 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 101.52 |=================================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 92.15 |================================ 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 82447 |========================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 143505 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 99574 |=============================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 79708 |======================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 56803 |================= Timed GCC Compilation 7.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 1070.70 |=========================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 591.32 |======================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 707.34 |============================ AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 926.08 |===================================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 971.98 |======================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 72.61 |============================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 27.80 |================= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 35.66 |====================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 39.30 |======================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 56.48 |=================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 4.65 |========================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 3.15 |================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 3.46 |=================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 3.59 |==================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 8.28 |============================================== Stockfish 2014-11-26 Total Time ms < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 4915 |============================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 3343 |=============================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 4474 |========================================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 5032 |============================================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 3042 |============================ FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 51.79 |============================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 10.27 |========= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 11.79 |========== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 12.71 |=========== Intel i9-7900X ........... 9.15 |======== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 75.27 |============================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 33.20 |==================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 43.57 |========================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 45.69 |=========================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 26.65 |================ OpenSSL 1.1.0f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 2104.87 |=========== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 7965.40 |=========================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 4598.47 |========================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 4387.47 |======================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 3043.47 |================ Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 1049994.41 |================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 2515784.92 |======================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 1703353.37 |=========================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 1639124.13 |========================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 1393412.33 |====================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 606874.10 |============== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 1744256.79 |======================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 1195935.33 |=========================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 1161953.33 |=========================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 1161451.96 |=========================== PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 4859 |============================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 1395 |============= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 2086 |==================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 2216 |===================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 1199 |=========== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 163208 |============ 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 602467 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 393659 |============================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 365767 |=========================== Intel i9-7900X ........... 585632 |=========================================== OSBench Test: Create Threads us Per Event < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 27.17 |================================ 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 23.07 |=========================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 30.71 |==================================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 38.25 |============================================= Intel i9-7900X ........... 19.32 |======================= OSBench Test: Create Processes us Per Event < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 29.77 |====================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 42.95 |================================ AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 59.61 |============================================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 57.95 |============================================ Intel i9-7900X ........... 30.25 |======================= OSBench Test: Memory Allocations Ns Per Event < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 83.03 |======================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 96.05 |============================================= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 95.14 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 96.32 |============================================= Intel i9-7900X ........... 88.04 |=========================================