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 LinuxProcessorMotherboardChipsetMemoryDiskGraphicsMonitorNetworkAudioOSKernelDisplay DriverCompilerFile-SystemScreen ResolutionDesktopDisplay ServerOpenGLAMD EPYC 7601AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3AMD Threadripper 1950XAMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (64 Cores)TYAN B8026T70AE24HRAMD Device 1450129024MB234GBASPEED ASPEED FamilyAcer P243WBroadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIeUbuntu 17.044.13.0-041300-generic (x86_64)modesetting 1.19.3GCC 6.3.0 20170406ext41920x1200Unity 7.5.02 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (80 Cores)TYAN S7106Intel Device 202096256MB256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150Intel I210 Gigabit ConnectionIntel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores)MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon32768MB80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MBRealtek ALC892DELL S2409WIntel Connection1920x1080AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16-Core @ 3.40GHz (32 Cores)Gigabyte X399 AORUS Gaming 7AMD Device 1450120GB Force MP500XFX AMD Radeon R9 290/390 4096MBRealtek ALC1220Acer B286HKQualcomm Atheros Device e0b1 + Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275X Server 1.19.34.5 Mesa 17.0.3 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0)3840x2160OpenBenchmarking.orgCompiler Details- --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-browser-plugin --disable-vtable-verify --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-gtk-cairo --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-java-home --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libmpx --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-multiarch --enable-multilib --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc=auto --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --program-prefix=x86_64-linux-gnu- --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-abi=m64 --with-arch-32=i686 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=new --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-target-system-zlib --with-tune=generic -v Processor Details- AMD EPYC 7601: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand- AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All): Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand- 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave- Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3: Scaling Governor: intel_pstate powersave- AMD Threadripper 1950X: Scaling Governor: acpi-cpufreq ondemand

AMD EPYC vs. Threadripper vs. Xeon - Ubuntu Linuxc-ray: Total Timeopenssl: RSA 4096-bit Performancerodinia: OpenMP LavaMDnpb: LU.Cprimesieve: 1e12 Prime Number Generationbuild-llvm: Time To Compileparboil: OpenMP LBMnpb: EP.Cdarktable: Masskrug - CPU-onlyapache: Static Web Page Servingblender: BMW27 - CPU-Onlyx264: H.264 Video Encodingdarktable: Server Room - CPU-onlydarktable: Boat - CPU-onlybuild-linux-kernel: Time To Compilettsiod-renderer: Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mappingjohn-the-ripper: Blowfishrodinia: OpenMP Streamclusterparboil: OpenMP Stencilnpb: LU.AAMD EPYC 7601AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3AMD Threadripper 1950X2.843294.5330.9646983.3414.08175.1150.951610.179.2422609.58621.29292.634.627.9437.40412.712955323.1513.8263042.802.853306.3730.1450046.9014.06192.2638.371607.687.5722529.83625.93288.283.727.0339.28430.153433514.667.7562479.082.844826.7031.4450072.2511.81134.6450.041815.8913.1428366.96540.98310.795.2914.3030.54236.463037322.527.7553974.4910.531339.0093.9316108.0336.33388.12108.07686.328.3429553.89556.58311.337.0114.0273.02362.431452027.2912.6119699.864.222189.7043.7120949.0220.26249.0887.101084.6610.8227960.06525.41324.496.2211.6045.96424.771402437.6313.1427592.43OpenBenchmarking.org

C-Ray

Total Time

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterC-Ray 1.1Total TimeAMD EPYC 76012 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)AMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v33691215SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.00, N = 32.842.842.854.2210.531. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3

OpenSSL

RSA 4096-bit Performance

OpenBenchmarking.orgSigns Per Second, More Is BetterOpenSSL 1.0.1gRSA 4096-bit Performance2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)AMD EPYC 7601AMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v310002000300040005000SE +/- 23.22, N = 3SE +/- 13.22, N = 3SE +/- 14.45, N = 3SE +/- 1.96, N = 3SE +/- 0.46, N = 34826.703306.373294.532189.701339.001. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -O3 -lssl -lcrypto -ldl

Rodinia

Test: OpenMP LavaMD

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterRodinia 2.4Test: OpenMP LavaMDAMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)AMD EPYC 76012 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v320406080100SE +/- 0.15, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.10, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 330.1430.9631.4443.7193.931. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -lOpenCL

NAS Parallel Benchmarks

Test / Class: LU.C

OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: LU.C2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)AMD EPYC 7601AMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v311K22K33K44K55KSE +/- 637.78, N = 3SE +/- 25.06, N = 3SE +/- 747.98, N = 3SE +/- 91.81, N = 3SE +/- 89.16, N = 350072.2550046.9046983.3420949.0216108.031. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -march=native -pthread -lmpi_usempif08 -lmpi_mpifh -lmpi2. Open MPI 2.0.2

Primesieve

1e12 Prime Number Generation

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterPrimesieve 5.4.21e12 Prime Number Generation2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)AMD EPYC 7601AMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v3816243240SE +/- 0.03, N = 3SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 311.8114.0614.0820.2636.331. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -fopenmp

Timed LLVM Compilation

Time To Compile

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed LLVM Compilation 4.0.1Time To Compile2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD EPYC 7601AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)AMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v380160240320400SE +/- 0.81, N = 3SE +/- 3.02, N = 4SE +/- 2.34, N = 3SE +/- 3.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.11, N = 3134.64175.11192.26249.08388.12

Parboil

Test: OpenMP LBM

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterParboil 2.5Test: OpenMP LBMAMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD EPYC 7601AMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v320406080100SE +/- 0.26, N = 3SE +/- 1.14, N = 6SE +/- 0.66, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.10, N = 338.3750.0450.9587.10108.071. (CXX) g++ options: -lm -lpthread -lgomp -ffast-math -fopenmp

NAS Parallel Benchmarks

Test / Class: EP.C

OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: EP.C2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD EPYC 7601AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)AMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v3400800120016002000SE +/- 34.76, N = 6SE +/- 0.32, N = 3SE +/- 0.90, N = 3SE +/- 0.58, N = 3SE +/- 3.03, N = 31815.891610.171607.681084.66686.321. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -march=native -pthread -lmpi_usempif08 -lmpi_mpifh -lmpi2. Open MPI 2.0.2

Darktable

Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterDarktable 2.2.1Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-onlyAMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3AMD EPYC 7601AMD Threadripper 1950X2 x Intel Xeon Gold 61383691215SE +/- 0.13, N = 4SE +/- 0.04, N = 3SE +/- 0.09, N = 3SE +/- 0.07, N = 3SE +/- 0.27, N = 67.578.349.2410.8213.14

Apache Benchmark

Static Web Page Serving

OpenBenchmarking.orgRequests Per Second, More Is BetterApache Benchmark 2.4.7Static Web Page ServingIntel Xeon E5-2687W v32 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD Threadripper 1950XAMD EPYC 7601AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)6K12K18K24K30KSE +/- 210.51, N = 3SE +/- 105.14, N = 3SE +/- 168.94, N = 3SE +/- 50.73, N = 3SE +/- 52.07, N = 329553.8928366.9627960.0622609.5822529.831. (CC) gcc options: -shared -fPIC -O2 -pthread

Blender

Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterBlender 2.78cBlend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-OnlyAMD Threadripper 1950X2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3AMD EPYC 7601AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)140280420560700525.41540.98556.58621.29625.93

x264

H.264 Video Encoding

OpenBenchmarking.orgFrames Per Second, More Is Betterx264 2017-09-08H.264 Video EncodingAMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v32 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD EPYC 7601AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)70140210280350SE +/- 1.53, N = 3SE +/- 1.06, N = 3SE +/- 3.63, N = 3SE +/- 1.27, N = 3SE +/- 0.45, N = 3324.49311.33310.79292.63288.28-lavformat -lavcodec -lavutil -lswscale-lavformat -lavcodec -lavutil -lswscale1. (CC) gcc options: -ldl -m64 -lm -lpthread -O3 -ffast-math -std=gnu99 -fPIC -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-tree-vectorize

Darktable

Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterDarktable 2.2.1Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-onlyAMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)AMD EPYC 76012 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v3246810SE +/- 0.08, N = 6SE +/- 0.07, N = 6SE +/- 0.35, N = 6SE +/- 0.09, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 33.724.625.296.227.01

Darktable

Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterDarktable 2.2.1Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-onlyAMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)AMD EPYC 7601AMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v32 x Intel Xeon Gold 613848121620SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.10, N = 3SE +/- 0.01, N = 3SE +/- 0.59, N = 67.037.9411.6014.0214.30

Timed Linux Kernel Compilation

Time To Compile

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9Time To Compile2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD EPYC 7601AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)AMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v31632486480SE +/- 0.89, N = 6SE +/- 0.51, N = 6SE +/- 0.58, N = 5SE +/- 0.62, N = 3SE +/- 0.75, N = 330.5437.4039.2845.9673.02

TTSIOD 3D Renderer

Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping

OpenBenchmarking.orgFPS, More Is BetterTTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3aPhong Rendering With Soft-Shadow MappingAMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)AMD Threadripper 1950XAMD EPYC 7601Intel Xeon E5-2687W v32 x Intel Xeon Gold 613890180270360450SE +/- 3.57, N = 3SE +/- 3.24, N = 3SE +/- 4.72, N = 3SE +/- 0.54, N = 3SE +/- 17.30, N = 6430.15424.77412.71362.43236.461. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mtune=native -flto -msse -mrecip -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mssse3 -lSDL -lstdc++

John The Ripper

Test: Blowfish

OpenBenchmarking.orgReal C/S, More Is BetterJohn The Ripper 1.8.0Test: BlowfishAMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD EPYC 7601Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3AMD Threadripper 1950X7K14K21K28K35KSE +/- 764.17, N = 6SE +/- 2076.33, N = 6SE +/- 2253.07, N = 6SE +/- 2257.07, N = 634335303732955314520140241. (CC) gcc options: -fopenmp -lcrypt

Rodinia

Test: OpenMP Streamcluster

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterRodinia 2.4Test: OpenMP StreamclusterAMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD EPYC 7601Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3AMD Threadripper 1950X918273645SE +/- 0.27, N = 6SE +/- 0.42, N = 3SE +/- 1.43, N = 6SE +/- 0.02, N = 3SE +/- 0.74, N = 314.6622.5223.1527.2937.631. (CXX) g++ options: -O2 -lOpenCL

Parboil

Test: OpenMP Stencil

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterParboil 2.5Test: OpenMP StencilAMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3AMD Threadripper 1950XAMD EPYC 760148121620SE +/- 0.00, N = 3SE +/- 0.17, N = 6SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.68, N = 67.757.7512.6113.1413.821. (CXX) g++ options: -lm -lpthread -lgomp -ffast-math -fopenmp

NAS Parallel Benchmarks

Test / Class: LU.A

OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: LU.AAMD EPYC 7601AMD EPYC 7601 (NUMA Interleave All)2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138AMD Threadripper 1950XIntel Xeon E5-2687W v314K28K42K56K70KSE +/- 1051.01, N = 4SE +/- 437.89, N = 3SE +/- 3783.72, N = 6SE +/- 11.08, N = 3SE +/- 19.47, N = 363042.8062479.0853974.4927592.4319699.861. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -march=native -pthread -lmpi_usempif08 -lmpi_mpifh -lmpi2. Open MPI 2.0.2

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