AMD EPYC 7251 vs. Intel Xeon Linux Ubuntu Benchmarks Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC Linux CPU benchmarking for a future article. Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 @ 3.90GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Intel HD P530 3072MB (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: Acer B286HK, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.6-041306-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.4, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5: Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: MSI C236A WORKSTATION (MS-7998) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Skylake, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon 4096MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.6-041306-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.4, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: ASUS X99-A, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB, Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.6-041306-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.4, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 @ 1.70GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99A RAIDER (MS-7885) v5.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6570/7570/8550 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.6-041306-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.4, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.6-041306-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.4, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 Intel Xeon Silver 4108: Processor: Intel Xeon Silver 4108 @ 3.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7100AG2NR, Chipset: Intel Device 2020, Memory: 23552MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: llvmpipe 22784MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.6-041306-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.4, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 AMD EPYC 7251: Processor: AMD EPYC 7251 8-Core @ 2.10GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN B8026T70AE24HR, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 129024MB, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: Acer P243W, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.6-041306-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.4, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Intel Xenon E5-2680 v2: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 3.60GHz (20 Cores / 40 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X9DR3-F v0123456789 (3.3 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 6 x 8192 MB DDR3-1333MHz HMT31GR7BFR4A, Disk: 120GB KingDian S280 12, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Monitor: SE2717H/HX, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection OS: LinuxMint 18.3, Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Intel Xenon E5-2680v2: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 3.60GHz (20 Cores / 40 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X9DR3-F v0123456789 (3.3 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v2/Xeon, Memory: 6 x 8192 MB DDR3-1333MHz HMT31GR7BFR4A, Disk: 120GB KingDian S280 12, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Network: Intel I350 Gigabit Connection OS: LinuxMint 18.3, Kernel: 4.10.0-38-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7, Display Server: X Server 1.18.4, Display Driver: modesetting 1.18.4, Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 325.92 |====================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 333.30 |====================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 649.11 |=========================================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 206.66 |============== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 686.49 |============================================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 318.91 |===================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 455.37 |=============================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 7590.86 |============ Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 6807.71 |=========== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 14715.42 |======================= Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 11786.19 |=================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 16478.16 |========================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 12923.99 |===================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 27636.31 |============================================ Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP LBM Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 154.51 |====================================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 171.84 |========================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 92.23 |======================= Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 186.15 |============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 108.51 |=========================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 127.78 |================================ AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 88.68 |====================== Intel Xenon E5-2680 v2 . 117.82 |============================= Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 122.57 |============================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 12.39 |=================================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 12.03 |================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 6.82 |=================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 16.86 |=============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 6.49 |================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 11.06 |=============================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 7.56 |===================== Intel Xenon E5-2680 v2 . 4.10 |=========== Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 4.29 |============ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 192.00 |=========================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 186.76 |=========================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 99.38 |============== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 321.70 |============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 94.73 |============== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 169.59 |======================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 106.02 |=============== Intel Xenon E5-2680 v2 . 99.18 |============== Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 100.74 |============== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 48.82 |=========================================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 48.58 |========================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 29.69 |========================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 53.97 |=============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 28.36 |========================= Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 43.13 |====================================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 26.33 |======================= Intel Xenon E5-2680 v2 . 21.89 |=================== Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 22.25 |=================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 7099 |============== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 7299 |============== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 13482 |========================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 4166 |======== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 14125 |=========================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 8264 |================ AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 9689 |================== Intel Xenon E5-2680 v2 . 24128 |============================================== Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 24622 |=============================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 236 |========================= Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 242 |========================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 386 |========================================= Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 155 |================= Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 387 |========================================= Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 128 |============== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 223 |======================== Intel Xenon E5-2680 v2 . 457 |================================================= Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 452 |================================================ x264 2017-09-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 178 |=========================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 181 |=========================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 313 |=============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 120 |================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 325 |================================================= Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 148 |====================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 233 |=================================== Intel Xenon E5-2680 v2 . 326 |================================================= Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 311 |=============================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 22655 |============== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 22799 |============== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 42566 |========================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 16533 |========== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 45010 |=========================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 27907 |================= AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 31385 |=================== Intel Xenon E5-2680 v2 . 76946 |=============================================== Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 77458 |=============================================== asmFish 2017-09-19 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 12920118 |============ Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 12936799 |============ Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 25225432 |======================= Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 9859939 |========= Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 26665452 |======================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 15086626 |============= AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 17473970 |================ Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 49237431 |============================================ ebizzy 0.3 Records/s > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 234891 |====================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 238967 |====================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 236792 |====================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 150019 |============== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 259701 |======================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 216369 |==================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 399141 |===================================== Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 502317 |============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 130.54 |=================================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 128.24 |================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 77.00 |==================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 173.24 |============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 74.77 |==================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 140.06 |===================================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 98.07 |========================== Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 47.22 |============= Timed PHP Compilation 7.1.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 83.48 |=============================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 82.75 |=============================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 65.96 |======================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 124.40 |============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 71.52 |========================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 106.74 |======================================= AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 89.23 |================================= Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 56.53 |===================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 16.88 |============================= Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 16.44 |============================ Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 9.44 |================ Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 22.75 |======================================= Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 8.97 |================ Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 27.13 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 10.61 |================== Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 6.81 |============ FFmpeg 3.3.3 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 6.29 |========================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 6.12 |========================= Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 6.46 |========================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 9.36 |====================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 7.48 |============================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 11.59 |=============================================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 9.01 |===================================== Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 .. 11.36 |============================================== Tachyon 0.98.9 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 11.28 |=================================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 10.99 |================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 6.36 |==================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 15.11 |=============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 6.04 |=================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 9.92 |=============================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 7.56 |======================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 677.87 |======================= Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 696.63 |======================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 1261.23 |=========================================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 571.83 |=================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 1328.27 |============================================= Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 787.77 |=========================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 893.73 |============================== Darktable 2.2.5 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 20.75 |============================================= Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 21.90 |=============================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 11.90 |========================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 18.19 |======================================= Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 13.06 |============================ Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 14.37 |=============================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 9.89 |===================== Darktable 2.2.5 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 .. 9.22 |========================================== Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 .. 9.34 |=========================================== Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 .. 5.76 |========================== Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 .. 10.26 |=============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 . 5.82 |=========================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 7.71 |=================================== AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 6.14 |============================ Primesieve 6.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 ......... 40.03 |================================================ Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 . 20.05 |======================== Stream 2013-01-17 Performance / Cost - Type: Copy MB/s Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 266.17 |============================================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 139.14 |======================== Stream 2013-01-17 Performance / Cost - Type: Scale MB/s Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 171.62 |============================================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 104.98 |============================ Stream 2013-01-17 Performance / Cost - Type: Triad MB/s Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 188.86 |============================================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 116.96 |============================ Stream 2013-01-17 Performance / Cost - Type: Add MB/s Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 190.95 |============================================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 116.54 |============================ NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Performance / Cost - Test / Class: EP.C Total Mop/s Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 0.96 |================================================ Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 0.75 |====================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Performance / Cost - Test / Class: LU.C Total Mop/s Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 58.18 |=============================================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 30.27 |======================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Performance / Cost - Test: Blowfish Real C/S Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 20.40 |=============================================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 19.35 |============================================= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Performance / Cost - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 0.47 |================================================ Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 0.30 |=============================== x264 2017-09-08 Performance / Cost - H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 0.49 |================================================ Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 0.35 |================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Performance / Cost - Compress Speed Test MIPS Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 66.07 |=============================================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 65.36 |============================================== asmFish 2017-09-19 Performance / Cost - 1024 Hash Memory, 26 Depth Nodes/second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 36787.31 |============================================ Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 35331.68 |========================================== ebizzy 0.3 Performance / Cost - Records/s Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 840.30 |============================================== Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 506.72 |============================ OpenSSL 1.0.1g Performance / Cost - RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better AMD EPYC 7251 .......... 1.88 |================================================ Intel Xeon Silver 4108 . 1.84 |=============================================== Darktable 2.0.3 Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 . 13.96 |================================================ Darktable 2.0.3 Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xenon E5-2680v2 . 0.35 |=================================================