Linux 4.19 - Xeon vs. EPYC Spectre / Meltdown Benchmarks

AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel.

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Xeon E3 v5: Default
August 29 2018
  52 Minutes
Xeon E3 v5: Mitigations Disabled
August 29 2018
  48 Minutes
Xeon E5 v3: Default
August 29 2018
  52 Minutes
Xeon E5 v3: Mitigations Disabled
August 29 2018
  45 Minutes
Xeon Gold: Default
August 27 2018
  57 Minutes
Xeon Gold: Mitigations Disabled
August 28 2018
  57 Minutes
Xeon Gold VM: Default
August 28 2018
  49 Minutes
Xeon Gold VM: Mitigations Disabled
August 28 2018
  1 Hour, 12 Minutes
EPYC 7601: Default
August 28 2018
  41 Minutes
EPYC 7601: Mitigations Disabled
August 29 2018
  59 Minutes
EPYC 7601 VM: Default
August 29 2018
  45 Minutes
EPYC 7601 VM: Mitigations Disabled
August 29 2018
  46 Minutes
EPYC 7551: Default
August 29 2018
  52 Minutes
EPYC 7551: Mitigations Disabled
August 29 2018
  56 Minutes
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Linux 4.19 - Xeon vs. EPYC Spectre / Meltdown Benchmarks AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon benchmarking for a future article on Phoronix.com by Michael Larabel. ,,"Xeon E3 v5: Default","Xeon E3 v5: Mitigations Disabled","Xeon E5 v3: Default","Xeon E5 v3: Mitigations Disabled","Xeon Gold: Default","Xeon Gold: Mitigations Disabled","Xeon Gold VM: Default","Xeon Gold VM: Mitigations Disabled","EPYC 7601: Default","EPYC 7601: Mitigations Disabled","EPYC 7601 VM: Default","EPYC 7601 VM: Mitigations Disabled","EPYC 7551: Default","EPYC 7551: Mitigations Disabled" Processor,,Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads),Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads),Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads),2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads),2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads),64 x Intel Xeon (Skylake IBRS) @ 2.00GHz (64 Cores),64 x Intel Xeon (Skylake IBRS) @ 2.00GHz (64 Cores),AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads),AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads),52 x AMD EPYC (with IBPB) @ 2.20GHz (52 Cores),52 x AMD EPYC (with IBPB) @ 2.20GHz (52 Cores),AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core @ 2.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads),AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core @ 2.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads) Motherboard,,MSI Z170A SLI PLUS (MS-7998) v1.0 (2.90 BIOS),MSI Z170A SLI PLUS (MS-7998) v1.0 (2.90 BIOS),MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0 (1.E0 BIOS),MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0 (1.E0 BIOS),TYAN S7106 (V1.01 BIOS),TYAN S7106 (V1.01 BIOS),QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (1.10.2-1ubuntu1 BIOS),QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (1.10.2-1ubuntu1 BIOS),TYAN B8026T70AE24HR (V1.02.B10 BIOS),TYAN B8026T70AE24HR (V1.02.B10 BIOS),QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (1.10.2-1ubuntu1 BIOS),QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (1.10.2-1ubuntu1 BIOS),GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0-00 v01010101 (F07 BIOS),GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0-00 v01010101 (F07 BIOS) Chipset,,Intel Skylake,Intel Skylake,Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon,Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC,AMD Family 17h,AMD Family 17h,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC,AMD Family 17h,AMD Family 17h Memory,,16384MB,16384MB,32768MB,32768MB,96256MB,96256MB,49152MB,49152MB,129024MB,129024MB,49152MB,49152MB,28672MB,28672MB Disk,,256GB TOSHIBA-RD400,256GB TOSHIBA-RD400,80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08,80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08,Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB,Samsung SSD 970 EVO 250GB,113GB,113GB,280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA,280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA,113GB,113GB,2 x Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB,2 x Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB Graphics,,Sapphire AMD Radeon 4096MB,Sapphire AMD Radeon 4096MB,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family,Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card,Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family,Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card,Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card,ASPEED ASPEED Family,llvmpipe 28032MB Audio,,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,,,QEMU Generic,QEMU Generic,,,QEMU Generic,QEMU Generic,, Monitor,,Acer B286HK,Acer B286HK,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228,,,VE228,VE228,,,, Network,,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel I210 Gigabit Connection,Intel I210 Gigabit Connection,Red Hat Virtio device,Red Hat Virtio device,Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe,Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe,Red Hat Virtio device,Red Hat Virtio device,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS,,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04 Kernel,,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826,4.19.0-041900rc1-generic (x86_64) 20180826 Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2 Display Server,,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6 Display Driver,,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6 OpenGL,,4.5 Mesa 18.0.5 (LLVM 6.0.0),4.5 Mesa 18.0.5 (LLVM 6.0.0),,,,,,,,,,,3.3 Mesa 18.0.5 (LLVM 6.0 128 bits),3.3 Mesa 18.0.5 (LLVM 6.0 128 bits) Compiler,,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,3840x2160,3840x2160,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1024x768,1024x768,1920x1080,1920x1080,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768 System Layer,,,,,,,,KVM,KVM,,,KVM,KVM,, ,,"Xeon E3 v5: Default","Xeon E3 v5: Mitigations Disabled","Xeon E5 v3: Default","Xeon E5 v3: Mitigations Disabled","Xeon Gold: Default","Xeon Gold: Mitigations Disabled","Xeon Gold VM: Default","Xeon Gold VM: Mitigations Disabled","EPYC 7601: Default","EPYC 7601: Mitigations Disabled","EPYC 7601 VM: Default","EPYC 7601 VM: Mitigations Disabled","EPYC 7551: Default","EPYC 7551: Mitigations Disabled" "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,,,20346.38,23159.05,23475.91,27681.13,23902.44,27221.00,16650.66,16592.90,16816.57,17895.62,15700.52,15392.41 "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,533.76,591.86,370.21,439.77,535.06,593.49,450.47,480.25,392.71,402.68,377.85,388.91,366.09,378.96 "Compile Bench - Test: Read Compiled Tree (MB/s)",HIB,3024.62,3483.40,2248.35,2550.20,2497.40,2800.95,2196.27,2556.98,2404.97,2501.18,2297.28,2372.36,2185.27,2317.13 "FS-Mark - Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size (Files/s)",HIB,90.23,91.23,34.87,34.50,33.67,48.33,42.33,46.70,570.50,605.47,200.75,225.13,180.30,183.00 "GIMP - Test: resize (sec)",LIB,7.68,7.15,11.39,10.51,15.00,12.88,10.98,10.59,10.66,10.40,10.81,10.83,11.21,10.93 "GIMP - Test: rotate (sec)",LIB,18.48,17.82,26.35,24.82,26.55,23.96,24.72,21.99,22.22,21.97,23.58,23.22,23.49,23.12 "GIMP - Test: auto-levels (sec)",LIB,16.49,15.61,22.88,21.39,27.14,24.33,25.75,23.32,21.96,21.54,22.95,22.87,23.15,22.85 "GIMP - Test: unsharp-mask (sec)",LIB,33.09,30.97,49.93,46.26,55.04,47.99,55.24,49.71,49.52,49.07,56.72,56.36,53.36,50.97 "Git - Time To Complete Common Git Commands (sec)",LIB,5.36,5.38,6.76,6.73,6.20,6.18,7.13,6.87,7.35,7.19,7.55,7.49,7.59,7.62 "Hackbench - Count: 32 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,171.13,134.46,84.27,67.07,35.51,38.28,73.10,60.37,28.24,29.20,93.23,95.12,29.44,28.37 "NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,29393.10,37541.52,27881.61,31291.48,29934.52,37582.46,28083.61,30464.94,23712.72,23880.50,21297.55,22671.42,22544.06,22917.50 "OSBench - Test: Create Files (us/Event)",LIB,13.47,11.32,16.58,14.28,15.68,13.46,16.14,14.16,18.55,17.31,20.21,18.43,19.26,18.19 "OSBench - Test: Create Threads (us/Event)",LIB,9.85,8.47,14.37,12.62,21.81,18.82,26.61,22.96,24.87,23.53,36.21,36.32,24.95,24.32 "OSBench - Test: Launch Programs (us/Event)",LIB,40.34,37.15,31.29,28.49,44.18,40.85,70.67,69.12,57.25,55.72,78.98,74.68,56.33,59.08 "OSBench - Test: Create Processes (us/Event)",LIB,,,26.81,24.39,43.67,39.88,55.57,54.37,42.58,42.17,62.90,61.69,41.81,41.95 "OSBench - Test: Memory Allocations (Ns/Event)",LIB,75.64,73.90,93.50,93.21,94.58,93.38,110.07,100.61,95.30,94.53,104.33,108.72,97.45,96.73 "PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,114545.60,121793.94,176082.02,184010.19,580318.53,609717.46,381149.45,410005.21,396825.40,398195.96,265808.96,267841.14,398154.18,401579.51 "Redis - Test: SET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,1762117.88,1960789.38,1461833.43,1566850.99,1674690.92,1758574.02,1440300.91,1534292.49,1335771.71,1343290.71,1053729.85,1106372.60,1155206.12,1188663.08 "Stress-NG - Test: Context Switching (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,2141383.39,2550882.54,6303014.77,5579125.35,21384939.00,14117739.60,12038250.91,15103597.63,12582879.48,14596757.68,9520446.18,10036999.91,10921553.63,13676681.68 "Stress-NG - Test: System V Message Passing (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,6928687.82,8758310.92,8270074.59,8539592.39,6356626.36,6294347.72,11184789.67,12206790.21,10719745.17,10965490.72,9575418.35,10384755.09,10442164.69,10572260.82 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,150.39,148.23,87.75,86.83,32.61,32.19,37.05,36.50,41.02,41.09,48.57,48.30,42.25,41.93 "Timed LLVM Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,925.50,922.06,516.84,507.43,170.07,167.34,210.52,201.36,225.81,230.54,284.29,275.40,242.77,244.40