Scaleway Benchmarks KVM testing on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. GP1-XS EPYC: Processor: 4 x AMD EPYC 7401P 24-Core (4 Cores), Motherboard: Scaleway Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 16384 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 138GB, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM GP1-S EPYC: Processor: 8 x AMD EPYC 7401P 24-Core (8 Cores), Motherboard: Scaleway Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2 x 16384 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 275GB, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM C2S Atom: Processor: Intel Atom C2550 (4 Cores), Motherboard: Online Labs SR v42 (00.00.00.0012 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Atom C2000 SoC Transaction Router, Memory: 2 x 4096 MB DDR3-1600MT/s Micron, Disk: 46GB, Network: Intel I354 2.5 GbE Backplane OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.9.93-mainline-rev1 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4 C2L Atom: Processor: Intel Atom C2750 (8 Cores), Motherboard: Online Labs SR v42 (00.00.00.0012 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Atom C2000 SoC Transaction Router, Memory: 4 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MT/s, Disk: 256GB SAMSUNG MZ7LN256, Network: 2 x Intel I354 2.5 GbE Backplane OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.9.93-mainline-rev1 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4 START1-M Atom: Processor: 4 x Intel Atom C3955 (4 Cores), Motherboard: Scaleway Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) (0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 4096 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 46GB, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2: Processor: AMD EPYC 7571 (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5a.2xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 31744MB, Disk: 54GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1032-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2: Processor: AMD EPYC 7571 (2 Cores / 4 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5a.xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 54GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1032-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8175M (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 m5.2xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 31744MB, Disk: 54GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1032-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM m-queens 1.2 Performance / Cost - Time To Solve Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 6.09 |=========== GP1-S EPYC ........... 5.06 |========= C2S Atom ............. 5.95 |=========== C2L Atom ............. 2.97 |===== START1-M Atom ........ 4.87 |========= m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 16.05 |============================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 26.61 |================================================= m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 18.69 |================================== OpenSSL 1.1.1 RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 595 |=============================== GP1-S EPYC ........... 966 |=================================================== C2S Atom ............. 113 |====== C2L Atom ............. 226 |============ START1-M Atom ........ 235 |============ m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 523 |=========================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 274 |============== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 974 |=================================================== NAMD 2.13b1 Performance / Cost - ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns x Dollar < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 0.15 |====== GP1-S EPYC ........... 0.20 |======== C2S Atom ............. 0.95 |====================================== C2L Atom ............. 0.48 |=================== START1-M Atom ........ 0.15 |====== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 0.70 |============================ m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 1.24 |================================================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 0.31 |============= Cost To Run Tests Cost / Price Per Hour Cost / Price Per Hour < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 0.35 |==================== GP1-S EPYC ........... 0.36 |==================== C2S Atom ............. 0.26 |=============== C2L Atom ............. 0.28 |================ START1-M Atom ........ 0.12 |======= m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 0.88 |================================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 0.77 |============================================ m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 0.55 |=============================== NAMD 2.13b1 ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms days/ns < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 7.28462 |=========== GP1-S EPYC ........... 4.94401 |======= C2S Atom ............. 31.61343 |============================================== C2L Atom ............. 15.86940 |======================= START1-M Atom ........ 15.04523 |====================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 6.96968 |========== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 13.73717 |==================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 4.41485 |====== CloverLeaf Lagrangian-Eulerian Hydrodynamics Seconds < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 5.26 |============= GP1-S EPYC ........... 6.31 |=============== C2S Atom ............. 20.54 |================================================= C2L Atom ............. 12.07 |============================= START1-M Atom ........ 13.48 |================================ m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 5.50 |============= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 7.44 |================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 2.93 |======= Rodinia 2.4 Performance / Cost - Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 5.56 |======== GP1-S EPYC ........... 5.08 |======= C2S Atom ............. 19.74 |=========================== C2L Atom ............. 9.92 |============== START1-M Atom ........ 6.15 |========= m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 20.82 |============================= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 35.32 |================================================= m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 11.85 |================ Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 Performance / Cost - Time To Compile Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 72.30 |========== GP1-S EPYC ........... 52.32 |======= C2S Atom ............. 232.53 |=============================== C2L Atom ............. 113.46 |=============== START1-M Atom ........ 82.11 |=========== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 232.58 |=============================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 361.60 |================================================ m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 108.44 |============== Blender 2.79 Performance / Cost - Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 66.31 |========== GP1-S EPYC ........... 44.50 |======= C2L Atom ............. 214.56 |================================== START1-M Atom ........ 117.54 |================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 164.60 |========================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 306.76 |================================================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 57.39 |========== GP1-S EPYC ........... 49.75 |========= C2S Atom ............. 276.44 |================================================ C2L Atom ............. 148.86 |========================== START1-M Atom ........ 157.96 |=========================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 63.23 |=========== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 100.36 |================= m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 45.80 |======== x264 2018-09-25 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 22.21 |============================== GP1-S EPYC ........... 30.44 |========================================= C2S Atom ............. 6.09 |======== C2L Atom ............. 11.86 |================ START1-M Atom ........ 10.13 |============== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 26.40 |=================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 14.51 |=================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 36.75 |================================================= Timed LLVM Compilation 6.0.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 1808 |================ GP1-S EPYC ........... 1046 |========= C2S Atom ............. 5813 |================================================== C2L Atom ............. 2836 |======================== START1-M Atom ........ 4106 |=================================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 1551 |============= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 2782 |======================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 986 |======== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 278 |============== GP1-S EPYC ........... 169 |========= C2S Atom ............. 987 |=================================================== C2L Atom ............. 496 |========================== START1-M Atom ........ 615 |================================ m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 260 |============= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 505 |========================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 197 |========== Rodinia 2.4 Performance / Cost - Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better GP1-S EPYC ........... 0.50 |========= C2S Atom ............. 2.76 |================================================== C2L Atom ............. 1.49 |=========================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 1.26 |======================= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 1.00 |================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 0.92 |================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 295 |================= GP1-S EPYC ........... 176 |========== C2S Atom ............. 907 |=================================================== C2L Atom ............. 463 |========================== START1-M Atom ........ 670 |====================================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 243 |============== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 441 |========================= m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 165 |========= Blender 2.79 Blend File: BMW27 - Compute: CPU-Only Seconds < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 947 |================ GP1-S EPYC ........... 556 |========= C2L Atom ............. 2146 |===================================== START1-M Atom ........ 2938 |================================================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 748 |============= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 1461 |========================= Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: CPU Events Per Second > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 5837 |============================ GP1-S EPYC ........... 10288 |================================================= C2S Atom ............. 1989 |========= C2L Atom ............. 3967 |=================== START1-M Atom ........ 4898 |======================= m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 5258 |========================= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 2694 |============= m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 7311 |=================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Performance / Cost - Time To Compile Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 5.91 |=========== GP1-S EPYC ........... 5.29 |========== C2S Atom ............. 18.13 |================================== C2L Atom ............. 9.26 |================= START1-M Atom ........ 6.70 |============ m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 17.03 |================================ m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 26.45 |================================================= m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 9.88 |================== Sysbench 2018-07-28 Test: Memory Events Per Second > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 1871006 |========== GP1-S EPYC ........... 2449592 |============= C2S Atom ............. 4873089 |========================== C2L Atom ............. 5450313 |============================= START1-M Atom ........ 3961334 |===================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 7310692 |====================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 7497312 |======================================= m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 8969525 |=============================================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 11971 |=========================== GP1-S EPYC ........... 18573 |========================================== C2S Atom ............. 4896 |=========== C2L Atom ............. 9465 |===================== START1-M Atom ........ 7018 |================ m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 14795 |================================= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 7957 |================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 21859 |================================================= Stockfish 9 Total Time Nodes Per Second > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 5726653 |========================= GP1-S EPYC ........... 10619530 |============================================== C2S Atom ............. 2399845 |========== C2L Atom ............. 4722292 |==================== START1-M Atom ........ 3444382 |=============== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 7590843 |================================= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 3967487 |================= m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 9623876 |========================================== Stockfish 9 Performance / Cost - Total Time Nodes Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 572665300.00 |========================================== GP1-S EPYC ........... 530976500.00 |======================================= C2S Atom ............. 239984500.00 |================== C2L Atom ............. 472229200.00 |=================================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 151816860.00 |=========== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 132249566.67 |========== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 240596900.00 |================== Cython benchmark 0.27 Performance / Cost - Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better GP1-S EPYC . 0.37 |== C2S Atom ... 12.48 |=========================================================== C2L Atom ... 1.24 |====== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3b Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 93.47 |========================== GP1-S EPYC ........... 150.51 |========================================== C2S Atom ............. 43.40 |============ C2L Atom ............. 81.82 |======================= START1-M Atom ........ 54.96 |=============== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 166.15 |============================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 90.39 |========================= m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 171.67 |================================================ m-queens 1.2 Time To Solve Seconds < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 304 |========================== GP1-S EPYC ........... 169 |============== C2S Atom ............. 595 |=================================================== C2L Atom ............. 297 |========================= START1-M Atom ........ 487 |========================================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 229 |==================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 443 |====================================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 234 |==================== Cython benchmark 0.27 Seconds < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC ... 35.52 |================ GP1-S EPYC .... 37.29 |================ C2S Atom ...... 124.78 |======================================================= C2L Atom ...... 124.28 |======================================================= START1-M Atom . 55.76 |========================= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3b Performance / Cost - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS Per Dollar > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 9347.00 |============================= GP1-S EPYC ........... 15051.00 |============================================== C2S Atom ............. 4340.00 |============= C2L Atom ............. 8182.00 |========================= m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 8307.50 |========================= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 4519.50 |============== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 8583.50 |========================== Tesseract OCR 4.0.0-beta.1 Time To OCR 7 Images Seconds < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 44.01 |==================== GP1-S EPYC ........... 43.99 |==================== C2S Atom ............. 105.78 |================================================ C2L Atom ............. 105.42 |================================================ START1-M Atom ........ 82.40 |===================================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 38.92 |================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 45.92 |===================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 32.47 |=============== Tensorflow 2017-02-03 Performance / Cost - Build: Cifar10 Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 3.07 |======================== GP1-S EPYC ........... 2.81 |====================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 4.60 |==================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 6.32 |================================================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 2.07 |================ Tensorflow 2017-02-03 Build: Cifar10 Seconds < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 153.60 |=================================== GP1-S EPYC ........... 93.74 |===================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 114.94 |========================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 210.53 |================================================ m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 69.15 |================ GNU Octave Benchmark 4.2.2 Seconds < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC .......... 12.24 |================== GP1-S EPYC ........... 12.44 |=================== C2S Atom ............. 32.55 |================================================= C2L Atom ............. 30.31 |============================================== START1-M Atom ........ 28.56 |=========================================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 11.20 |================= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 12.16 |================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 11.71 |================== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Performance / Cost - Compress Speed Test MIPS Per Dollar > Higher Is Better GP1-S EPYC ........... 1857300.00 |===================================== m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 1479500.00 |============================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 795700.00 |================ m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 2185900.00 |============================================ x264 2018-09-25 Performance / Cost - H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 2640.00 |================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 1451.00 |=================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 3675.00 |=============================================== OpenSSL 1.1.1 Performance / Cost - RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 52300.00 |========================= m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 97370.00 |============================================== Tesseract OCR 4.0.0-beta.1 Performance / Cost - Time To OCR 7 Images Seconds x Dollar < Lower Is Better GP1-S EPYC ........... 0.44 |================================================ m5a.2xlarge EPYC EC2 . 0.39 |========================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 .. 0.46 |================================================== m5.2xlarge Xeon EC2 .. 0.32 |=================================== Apache Siege 2.4.29 Performance / Cost - Concurrent Users: 250 Transactions Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC . 28061.63 |======================================================= Apache Siege 2.4.29 Concurrent Users: 250 Transactions Per Second > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC . 2245 |===========================================================