AMD EPYC vs. Threadripper vs. Xeon - Ubuntu Linux

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.

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AMD EPYC vs. Threadripper vs. Xeon - Ubuntu Linux 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 Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Intel 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: 1920x1080 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 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 |============================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 29553.89 |=============================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 27960.06 |============================= 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 |============================= Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 556.58 |============================= AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 525.41 |============================ 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 |========================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 7.01 |=================================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 6.22 |=============================== 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 |================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 8.34 |====================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 10.82 |============================ 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 |================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 14.02 |================================= AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 11.60 |============================ 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 |================================ Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 1339.00 |========= AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 2189.70 |=============== 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 |=========== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 36.33 |================================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 20.26 |=================== 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 |========= Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 10.53 |================================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 4.22 |============== 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 |=========== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 388.12 |================================= AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 249.08 |===================== 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 |============== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 73.02 |================================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 45.96 |===================== 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 |================================ Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 311.33 |================================ AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 324.49 |================================= 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 |================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 362.43 |============================ AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 424.77 |================================= 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 |============================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 14520 |============== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 14024 |============== 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 |==================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 27.29 |========================= AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 37.63 |================================== 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 |=========== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 93.93 |================================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 43.71 |================ 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 |=================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 12.61 |=============================== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 13.14 |================================ 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 |=============== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 108.07 |================================= AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 87.10 |=========================== 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 |=============================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 16108.03 |========== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 20949.02 |============= 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 |=========================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 19699.86 |========== AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 27592.43 |============== 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 |================================ Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 686.32 |============ AMD Threadripper 1950X .............. 1084.66 |===================