AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon vs. Amazon EC2 Cloud Comparison to Epyc vs. Cloud tests. 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 m4.10xlarge: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 @ 3.00GHz (40 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 161792MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Intel 82599 Virtual Function OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-1022-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon m4.16xlarge: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 @ 3.00GHz (64 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 258048MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Device 1d0f:ec20 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-1022-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon c4.4xlarge: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 @ 2.90GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 30720MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Intel 82599 Virtual Function OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-1022-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon c4.8xlarge: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 @ 3.50GHz (36 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 60416MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Intel 82599 Virtual Function OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-1022-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon c3.8xlarge: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.79GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 60416MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-1022-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon r4.16xlarge: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2686 v4 @ 3.00GHz (64 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 492544MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Device 1d0f:ec20 OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-1022-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.2.amazon 2500K: Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3P, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 24576MB, Disk: 1000GB Western Digital WD10EADS-00P + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DL003-9VT1 + 512GB Crucial_CT512MX1, Graphics: AMD Radeon R9 285/380 2048MB (1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC889, Monitor: EQ276W DP, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 17.03, Kernel: 4.4.0-93-generic (x86_64), Desktop: KDE Frameworks 5, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.1.2, OpenGL: 4.5 Mesa 17.0.7 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 4.0.0), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, 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 |================================ m4.10xlarge ......................... 629.38 |=========== m4.16xlarge ......................... 1036.50 |================== c4.4xlarge .......................... 302.17 |===== c4.8xlarge .......................... 672.88 |============ c3.8xlarge .......................... 565.48 |========== r4.16xlarge ......................... 1045.49 |================== 2500K ............................... 91.89 |== 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 |========================= m4.10xlarge ......................... 37949.85 |================= m4.16xlarge ......................... 66710.16 |=============================== c4.4xlarge .......................... 20546.79 |========= c3.8xlarge .......................... 34478.44 |================ r4.16xlarge ......................... 67748.67 |=============================== 2500K ............................... 8670.69 |==== 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 |=============================== m4.10xlarge ......................... 36509.86 |======================= m4.16xlarge ......................... 43175.90 |=========================== c4.4xlarge .......................... 18060.63 |=========== c3.8xlarge .......................... 33661.53 |===================== r4.16xlarge ......................... 45966.13 |============================ 2500K ............................... 4921.92 |=== 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 |============== m4.10xlarge ......................... 74.43 |===================== m4.16xlarge ......................... 47.45 |============== c4.4xlarge .......................... 114.31 |================================= c4.8xlarge .......................... 65.38 |=================== c3.8xlarge .......................... 75.51 |====================== r4.16xlarge ......................... 51.78 |=============== 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 |=================== m4.10xlarge ......................... 11.47 |============================ m4.16xlarge ......................... 7.63 |=================== c4.4xlarge .......................... 12.86 |================================ c4.8xlarge .......................... 11.86 |============================= c3.8xlarge .......................... 11.20 |============================ r4.16xlarge ......................... 7.66 |=================== 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 |= m4.10xlarge ......................... 56.47 |=== m4.16xlarge ......................... 34.19 |== c4.4xlarge .......................... 115.91 |===== c4.8xlarge .......................... 52.77 |== c3.8xlarge .......................... 124.85 |====== r4.16xlarge ......................... 34.86 |== 2500K ............................... 708.21 |================================= 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 |===================== m4.10xlarge ......................... 23.66 |======================= m4.16xlarge ......................... 20.21 |=================== c4.4xlarge .......................... 25.67 |========================= c4.8xlarge .......................... 23.45 |====================== c3.8xlarge .......................... 15.78 |=============== r4.16xlarge ......................... 16.23 |=============== 2500K ............................... 35.62 |================================== 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 |========================== m4.10xlarge ......................... 23520 |==================== m4.16xlarge ......................... 39039 |================================== c4.4xlarge .......................... 11382 |========== c4.8xlarge .......................... 25152 |====================== c3.8xlarge .......................... 19532 |================= r4.16xlarge ......................... 38527 |================================== 2500K ............................... 3309 |=== 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 |================================ m4.10xlarge ......................... 264.84 |============================ m4.16xlarge ......................... 304.36 |================================ c4.4xlarge .......................... 257.83 |=========================== c4.8xlarge .......................... 281.33 |============================= c3.8xlarge .......................... 303.73 |================================ r4.16xlarge ......................... 317.57 |================================= 2500K ............................... 98.93 |========== 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 |====== m4.10xlarge ......................... 41.84 |======== m4.16xlarge ......................... 30.62 |====== c4.4xlarge .......................... 73.54 |============== c4.8xlarge .......................... 39.89 |======== c3.8xlarge .......................... 51.38 |========== r4.16xlarge ......................... 30.80 |====== 2500K ............................... 172.53 |================================= 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 |========== m4.10xlarge ......................... 213.94 |================ m4.16xlarge ......................... 147.24 |=========== c4.4xlarge .......................... 435.36 |================================= c4.8xlarge .......................... 209.76 |================ c3.8xlarge .......................... 290.03 |====================== r4.16xlarge ......................... 147.57 |=========== 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 |=== m4.10xlarge ......................... 6.45 |======= m4.16xlarge ......................... 4.21 |==== c4.4xlarge .......................... 13.22 |============= c4.8xlarge .......................... 6.08 |====== c3.8xlarge .......................... 8.54 |========= r4.16xlarge ......................... 4.16 |==== 2500K ............................... 33.61 |================================== 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 |==== m4.10xlarge ......................... 22.18 |======= m4.16xlarge ......................... 14.39 |===== c4.4xlarge .......................... 45.96 |=============== c4.8xlarge .......................... 20.75 |======= c3.8xlarge .......................... 24.76 |======== r4.16xlarge ......................... 14.63 |===== 2500K ............................... 100.22 |================================= 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 |================================ m4.10xlarge ......................... 2229.10 |=============== m4.16xlarge ......................... 3835.70 |========================= c4.4xlarge .......................... 1070.07 |======= c4.8xlarge .......................... 2382.30 |================ c3.8xlarge .......................... 1836.53 |============ r4.16xlarge ......................... 3861.60 |========================== 2500K ............................... 449.83 |===