AMD EPYC vs. Intel 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 E3-1280 v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 470/480 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: ASUS PB278, 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: 2560x1440 Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 @ 3.80GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 60GB Patriot Torch, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, 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 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 R7 1700X: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 1700X Eight-Core @ 3.40GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS PRIME X370-PRO, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 64512MB, Disk: 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 500GB Seagate ST9500325AS, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon R9 FURY / NANO 4096MB, Audio: C-Media CMI8788, Network: Intel I211 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.04, Kernel: 4.13.2-041302-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.24.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.3, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170406 + Clang 4.0.0-1ubuntu1 + LLVM 4.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 334.80 |====== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 660.24 |============ Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 686.32 |============ R7 1700X ............................ 532.10 |========= 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 12819.49 |====== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 20916.24 |========== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 19699.86 |========== R7 1700X ............................ 14018.15 |======= 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 6771.72 |==== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 14551.95 |========= Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 16108.03 |========== R7 1700X ............................ 7536.06 |===== 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 166.83 |================================= Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 90.01 |================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 108.07 |===================== R7 1700X ............................ 149.16 |============================== 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 35.62 |================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 12.74 |============ Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 12.61 |============ R7 1700X ............................ 25.12 |======================== 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 177.39 |================================= Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 98.38 |================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 93.93 |================= R7 1700X ............................ 85.40 |================ 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 30.08 |================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 26.20 |============================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 27.29 |=============================== R7 1700X ............................ 28.04 |================================ 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 7556 |======= Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 13815 |============== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 14520 |============== R7 1700X ............................ 11602 |=========== 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 182.76 |=================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 262.13 |============================ Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 311.33 |================================= R7 1700X ............................ 261.29 |============================ 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 122.28 |================================= Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 75.83 |==================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 73.02 |==================== R7 1700X ............................ 80.92 |====================== 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 715.03 |================================= Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 408.07 |=================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 388.12 |================== R7 1700X ............................ 474.86 |====================== 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 19.64 |================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 11.09 |=================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 10.53 |================== R7 1700X ............................ 8.43 |=============== 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 71.03 |================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 38.20 |================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 36.33 |================= R7 1700X ............................ 40.53 |=================== 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 697.10 |===== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 1271.27 |======== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 1339.00 |========= 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 33.24 |================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 12.92 |============= Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 14.02 |============== 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 23.03 |================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 8.39 |============ Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 8.34 |============ 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 E3-1280 v5 ............... 11.25 |================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 ............... 6.97 |===================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 .............. 7.01 |=====================