AMD Threadripper 2990WX vs. Intel Linux Benchmarks

Intel Core i7-7740K testing with a Gigabyte X299 AORUS Gaming-CF (F2d BIOS) and MSI NVIDIA GP108 2048MB on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.

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Threadripper 2990WX
August 13 2018
  40 Minutes
2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138
August 13 2018
  44 Minutes
Core i7 7740X
August 13 2018
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AMD Threadripper 2990WX vs. Intel Linux Benchmarks, "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel", Lower Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",24.529,24.518,24.597 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",28.011,28.168,28.294 "Core i7 7740X",162.827,162.701,162.68 "John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 - Test: Blowfish", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",43257,41472,42487 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",49259,48683,48071 "Core i7 7740X", "John The Ripper 1.8.0-jumbo-1 - Test: Traditional DES", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",171507000,178402000,175610000 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",161660000,164413000,161972000 "Core i7 7740X",32373000,32415000,32391000 "Stream 2013-01-17 - Type: Scale", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",35481.4,34322.2,34877.5,34459.7,36450.6 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",110551,109074,107072.7,110498.2,111990 "Core i7 7740X",22289.5,22295.3,22290.9,22289.4,22294.6 "7-Zip Compression 16.02 - Compress Speed Test", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",86759,84646,80621,80509,84443 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",143998,142256,142125 "Core i7 7740X",29519,29283,29748 "Stream 2013-01-17 - Type: Triad", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",41672.3,39093,39472.2,38749,40246.8 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",112882.9,112766.5,117918.3,119741.7,122026.5 "Core i7 7740X",24853.2,24859.1,24851.7,24852.2,24863.2 "Stream 2013-01-17 - Type: Add", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",40705.6,39843.3,39935.5,38973.7,39724 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",115074,118378.7,116077.2,120536.1,119545.5 "Core i7 7740X",25067.1,25075,25068.2,25070.2,25082.6 "Stream 2013-01-17 - Type: Copy", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",56473.3,58230.5,55122.9,57918.9,55476.5 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",120873.3,123323.3,133290,135718.8,135812.2,122772.8,124951.3,136137.3,117778.2,131578.3 "Core i7 7740X",30136.4,30148.3,30157.5,30155.2,30132.4 "Tinymembench 2018-05-28 - Standard Memset", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX", "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138", "Core i7 7740X", "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",34.19855093956,31.310368061066,31.638442993164,31.267817974091,31.389210939407,31.561654806137 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",33.900012969971,29.274752140045,29.683660030365,29.75835609436,29.496005058289,29.48899102211 "Core i7 7740X",109.52197217941,107.43462705612,107.64139604568 "x264 2018-07-28 - H.264 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",145.12,145.46,144.65 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",114.24,117.24,113.38 "Core i7 7740X",49.79,51.28,51.71 "Tinymembench 2018-05-28 - Standard Memcpy", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX", "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138", "Core i7 7740X", "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Read Compiled Tree", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",3227.78,3227.78,3232.99 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",2513.53,2467.93,2467.93 "Core i7 7740X",1232.19,1274.3,1234.49 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",457.46,446.19,445.01 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",822.24,822.31,821.76 "Core i7 7740X",1005.91,1007.56,1006.42 "x265 2.8 - H.265 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",11.88,11.85,11.85 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",10.49,10.48,10.66 "Core i7 7740X",5.58,5.62,5.59 "RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 - Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX", "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138", "Core i7 7740X", "RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 - Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX", "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138", "Core i7 7740X", "RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 - Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX", "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138", "Core i7 7740X", "RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 - Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX", "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138", "Core i7 7740X", "FFmpeg 4.0.2 - H.264 HD To NTSC DV", Lower Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",8.5423049926758,8.4449510574341,8.496554851532 "Core i7 7740X",5.0428950786591,4.9008951187134,4.9266548156738 "RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 - Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX", "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138", "Core i7 7740X", "RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 - Type: Scale - Benchmark: Floating Point", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX", "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138", "Core i7 7740X", "RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 - Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX", "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138", "Core i7 7740X", "RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 - Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX", "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138", "Core i7 7740X", "RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 - Type: Scale - Benchmark: Integer", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX", "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138", "Core i7 7740X", "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Composite", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",539.61,542.55,542.29 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",580.87,588.12,587.94 "Core i7 7740X",698.35,698.76,698.33 "FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 - WAV To FLAC", Lower Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",9.2082769870758,9.1932520866394,9.1880230903625,9.1576688289642,9.1773700714111 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",10.188884019852,10.296267986298,10.268867015839,10.243753910065,10.31854891777 "Core i7 7740X",8.0546810626984,8.1151978969574,8.1010990142822,8.112401008606,8.1017868518829 "RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 - Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX", "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138", "Core i7 7740X", "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",677.55,699.93,700.28 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",630.9,668.04,668.15 "Core i7 7740X",812.54,812.84,812.39 "LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 - WAV To MP3", Lower Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",32.540280103683,32.501573085785,32.515630960464 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",32.11748290062,32.147222042084,32.175560951233 "Core i7 7740X",26.622524023056,26.592348098755,26.608780145645 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Monte Carlo", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",139.71,139.81,139.66 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",125.52,125.32,125.58 "Core i7 7740X",153.2,153.2,153.21 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",1187.24,1188.06,1190.09 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",1043.97,1043.29,1042.95 "Core i7 7740X",1272.4,1272.71,1272.02 "Crafty 25.2 - Elapsed Time", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",7490939,7460267,7483947 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",7383571,7351327,7363038 "Core i7 7740X",8886424,8941301,8881438 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",236.07,238.77,236.4 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",281.7,281.66,281.27 "Core i7 7740X",247.73,247.51,247.59 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",512.77,524.54,514.85 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",516.09,516.97,516.24 "Core i7 7740X",516.16,605.7,594.09 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile", Higher Results Are Better "Threadripper 2990WX",2075.8,2094.76,2081.86 "2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138",1702.21,1706.16,1702.21 "Core i7 7740X",875.62,775.76,811.85,829.72,900.42,715.09