Some Random Xeon vs. EPYC Linux Benchmarks AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core testing with a GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0-00 v01010101 (F07 BIOS) and llvmpipe 28032MB on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0 (1.E0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, 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 (F07 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 2 x Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB, Graphics: llvmpipe 28032MB, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.19.6, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 18.0.5 (LLVM 6.0 128 bits), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 35.37 |========= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 180.77 |============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 106.27 |====================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 218.70 |============================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 34.27 |=============== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 103.34 |============================================== Tinymembench 2018-05-28 Standard Memcpy MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 11343.23 |======================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 12395.00 |============================================ Tinymembench 2018-05-28 Standard Memset MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 15160.93 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 9941.97 |============================= HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: G-HPL GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 106.52 |============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 87.62 |====================================== HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: G-Ffte GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 7.86224 |============================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 11.97783 |============================================ HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: G-Ffte GFLOP/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 7.86224 |============================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 11.97783 |============================================ HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: EP-DGEMM GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 5.96531 |============================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 5.33355 |======================================== HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: G-Ptrans GB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 4.00553 |============================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 2.39346 |=========================== HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: EP-STREAM Triad GB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 1.57908 |============================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 0.84415 |======================== HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: G-Random Access GUP/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 0.02624 |================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 0.06414 |============================================= HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: Random Ring Latency usecs < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 0.62573 |=========== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 2.59454 |============================================= HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: Random Ring Bandwidth GB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 0.99079 |============================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 0.39331 |================== HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: Max Ping Pong Bandwidth MB/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 11445.09 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 9411.19 |==================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP LBM Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 97.18 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 74.42 |==================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 6.54 |================================================ AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 2.81 |===================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 13.67 |========================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 15.56 |=============================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 91.87 |============ AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 346.43 |============================================== Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2 Primate Phylogeny Analysis Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 124.34 |============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 61.82 |======================= Crafty 25.2 Elapsed Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 6549457 |============================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 5335750 |===================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3b Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 374.86 |========================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 414.25 |============================================== VP9 libvpx Encoding 1.7.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 11.99 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 11.21 |============================================ x264 2018-07-28 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 74.13 |================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 102.34 |============================================== x265 2.8 H.265 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 7.79 |===================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 10.03 |=============================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.30 Operation: Swirl Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 176 |================================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 177 |================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.30 Operation: Rotate Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 201 |================================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 179 |============================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.30 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 119 |===================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 157 |================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.30 Operation: Enhanced Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 127 |===================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 169 |================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.30 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 204 |================================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 177 |=========================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.30 Operation: Noise-Gaussian Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 117 |====================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 150 |================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.30 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 214 |================================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 197 |============================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 102.25 |============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 31.69 |============== Primesieve 7.1 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 36.70 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 12.14 |================ Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 128 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 44.78 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 18.58 |==================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 13.24 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 12.57 |============================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 35.74 |===================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 45.55 |=============================================== FFmpeg 4.0.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 11.13 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 10.88 |============================================== Radiance Benchmark 5.0 Test: Serial Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 950.11 |======================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 1077.36 |============================================= Radiance Benchmark 5.0 Test: SMP Parallel Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 321.89 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 333.70 |============================================== Tachyon 0.98.9 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 6.05 |================================================ AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 2.36 |=================== Darktable 2.4.2 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 11.39 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 9.30 |====================================== Darktable 2.4.2 Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 6.93 |================================================ AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 6.44 |============================================= Darktable 2.4.2 Test: Server Rack - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 0.16 |================================================ AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 0.16 |================================================ Darktable 2.4.2 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 4.75 |================================================ AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 2.64 |=========================== GIMP 2.8.22 Test: resize Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 10.49 |============================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 10.86 |=============================================== GIMP 2.8.22 Test: rotate Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 25.23 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 23.02 |=========================================== GIMP 2.8.22 Test: auto-levels Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 21.60 |============================================= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 22.64 |=============================================== GIMP 2.8.22 Test: unsharp-mask Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 46.77 |========================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 52.30 |=============================================== Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: FLOAT QUIPs > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 331753217.66 |======================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 246991888.16 |============================== Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: DOUBLE QUIPs > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 689577100.49 |======================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 602369449.16 |=================================== Chaos Group V-RAY 1.1.0 Mode: CPU Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 94.08 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 39.50 |==================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Total ms < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 9066 |================ AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 26071 |=============================================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Kernel ms < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 2654 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 2909 |================================================ Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Loader ms < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 11649 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 5339 |====================== Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Firmware ms < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 24149 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 321 |= Systemd Total Boot Time Test: Userspace ms < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 6412 |============= AMD EPYC 7551 .......... 23162 |===============================================