AMD EPYC vs. Threadripper vs. Dual Xeon Gold Some initial AMD EPYC 7601 tests on Ubuntu 17.04 with Linux 4.13. Tests for a future article on Phoronix.com. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel. AMD EPYC 7601: Processor: AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (64 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN B8026T70AE24HR, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 129024MB, Disk: 234GB, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-041300-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All: Processor: AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (64 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN B8026T70AE24HR, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 129024MB, Disk: 234GB, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-041300-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores), Motherboard: TYAN S7106, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 96256MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-041300-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 AMD Threadripper 1950X: Processor: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core @ 3.40GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte X399 AORUS Gaming 7, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 120GB Force MP500, Graphics: XFX AMD Radeon R9 290/390 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1220, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Qualcomm Atheros Device e0b1 + Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.0-041300-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.5.0, Display Server: X Server 1.19.3, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.3 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 1610.17 |============================ AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 1607.68 |============================ 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 1815.89 |================================ AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 1084.66 |=================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 1660.05 |================ AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 2866.66 |=========================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 2916.99 |=========================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 3398.87 |================================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 63042.80 |=============================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 62479.08 |=============================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 53974.49 |=========================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 27592.43 |============== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 46983.34 |============================= AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 50046.90 |=============================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 50072.25 |=============================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 20949.02 |============= HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: G-HPL GFLOPS > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 4.64391 |========================= AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 4.19130 |====================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 1.76267 |========= AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 6.01322 |================================ HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: G-Ffte GFLOPS > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 0.79650 |============================ AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 0.53573 |=================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 0.92592 |================================ AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 0.38001 |============= HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: G-Ffte GFLOP/s > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 0.79650 |============================ AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 0.53573 |=================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 0.92592 |================================ AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 0.38001 |============= HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: G-Ptrans GB/s > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 0.78362 |================================ AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 0.72380 |============================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 0.37035 |=============== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 0.54090 |====================== HPC Challenge 1.5.0 Test / Class: EP-STREAM Triad GB/s > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 2.65413 |==================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 3.58703 |========================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 4.35315 |================================ AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 1.99588 |=============== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP LBM Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 50.95 |==================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 38.37 |=============== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 50.04 |==================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 87.10 |================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 13.82 |================================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 7.75 |=================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 7.75 |=================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 13.14 |================================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 30.96 |======================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 30.14 |======================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 31.44 |======================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 43.71 |================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 23.15 |===================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 14.66 |============= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 22.52 |==================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 37.63 |================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 29553 |============================= AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 34335 |================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 30373 |============================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 14024 |============== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 412.71 |================================ AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 430.15 |================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 236.46 |================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 424.77 |================================= x264 2017-09-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 292.63 |============================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 288.28 |============================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 310.79 |================================ AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 324.49 |================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 37.40 |============================ AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 39.28 |============================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 30.54 |======================= AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 45.96 |================================== Timed LLVM Compilation 4.0.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 175.11 |======================= AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 192.26 |========================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 134.64 |================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 249.08 |================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 2.84 |======================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 2.85 |======================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 2.84 |======================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 4.22 |=================================== Primesieve 5.4.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 14.08 |======================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 14.06 |======================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 11.81 |==================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 20.26 |================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 3294.53 |====================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 3306.37 |====================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 4826.70 |================================ AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 2189.70 |=============== Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 7.94 |=================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 7.03 |================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 14.30 |================================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 11.60 |============================ Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 9.24 |======================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 7.57 |==================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 13.14 |================================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 10.82 |============================ Darktable 2.2.1 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 4.62 |========================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 3.72 |===================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 5.29 |============================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 6.22 |=================================== Blender 2.78c Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 621.29 |================================= AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 625.93 |================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 540.98 |============================= AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 525.41 |============================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 22609.58 |========================= AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 22529.83 |========================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 28366.96 |=============================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 27960.06 |=============================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 32948.54 |============================== AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 33856.41 |=============================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 20407.10 |=================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 33915.39 |=============================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7601 ....................... 8.31 |================= AMD EPYC 7601 - NUMA Interleave All . 8.03 |================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ............ 16.31 |================================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 7.77 |================