Talos II Raptor POWER9 System AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon vs. POWER9 CPUs. Benchmarks for a future article. GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler: Processor: POWER9 altivec supported @ 3.80GHz (64 Cores), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.00, Memory: 262144MB, Disk: 500GB MAXTOR STM350063, Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 8192MB, Audio: AMD Ellesmere, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-rc4 (ppc64le) 20180307, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.4.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MT/s Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD EPYC 7601: Processor: AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN B8026T70AE24HR (V0.05.B10 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 8 x 16384 MB DDR4-2666MT/s Samsung M393A2K40BB2-CTD, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD EPYC 7551: Processor: AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core @ 2.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0-00 v01010101 (F03 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 2 x Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB, Graphics: llvmpipe 28032MB, Audio: NVIDIA GM204 HD Audio, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP LBM Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 66.08 |=================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 30.18 |================ AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 37.39 |==================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 71.88 |====================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 9.69 |======================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 2.28 |========= AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 2.61 |=========== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 2.76 |=========== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 10.51 |======================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 6.01 |============= AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 14.26 |=============================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 17.35 |====================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 817.44 |===================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 397.43 |================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 256.15 |============ AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 355.63 |================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 38.58 |====================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 27.10 |=========================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 32.59 |================================ AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 34.79 |================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 19.09 |====================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 10.00 |==================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 10.71 |===================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 12.27 |======================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 27.80 |===================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 14.51 |=================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 17.46 |======================= AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 28.79 |====================================== x264 2018-02-05 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 43.72 |============= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 127.28 |===================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 128.17 |===================================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 101.52 |============================= 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 82447 |===================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 143505 |===================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 99574 |========================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 79708 |===================== Timed GCC Compilation 7.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 1070.70 |==================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 591.32 |==================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 707.34 |======================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 926.08 |=============================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 72.61 |====================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 27.80 |=============== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 35.66 |=================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 39.30 |===================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 4.65 |======================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 3.15 |========================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 3.46 |============================= AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 3.59 |============================== Stockfish 2014-11-26 Total Time ms < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 4915 |====================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 3343 |========================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 4474 |=================================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 5032 |======================================= FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 51.79 |====================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 10.27 |======== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 11.79 |========= AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 12.71 |========= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 75.27 |====================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 33.20 |================= AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 43.57 |====================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 45.69 |======================= OpenSSL 1.1.0f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 2104.87 |========== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 7965.40 |==================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 4598.47 |===================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 4387.47 |==================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 1049994.41 |============== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 2515784.92 |================================= AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 1703353.37 |====================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 1639124.13 |====================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 606874.10 |=========== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 1744256.79 |================================= AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 1195935.33 |======================= AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 1161953.33 |====================== PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 4859 |======================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 1395 |=========== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 2086 |================= AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 2216 |================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 163208 |========== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 602467 |===================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 393659 |======================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 365767 |====================== OSBench Test: Create Threads us Per Event < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 27.17 |=========================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 23.07 |======================= AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 30.71 |=============================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 38.25 |====================================== OSBench Test: Create Processes us Per Event < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 29.77 |=================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 42.95 |=========================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 59.61 |====================================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 57.95 |===================================== OSBench Test: Memory Allocations Ns Per Event < Lower Is Better GCC 7.3.0 Stock Debian Compiler . 83.03 |================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 ........ 96.05 |====================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ................... 95.14 |====================================== AMD EPYC 7551 ................... 96.32 |======================================