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: 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 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 ......... 7590843 |================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 3967487 |================== 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 ......... 151816860.00 |=========== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 132249566.67 |========== 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 ......... 166.15 |================================================= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 90.39 |=========================== 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 ......... 8307.50 |========================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 4519.50 |============== 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 ......... 243 |============== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 441 |========================= 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 ......... 17.03 |================================ m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 26.45 |================================================== 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 ......... 1551 |============== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 2782 |======================== 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 ......... 232.58 |================================ m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 361.60 |================================================= 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 ......... 14795 |======================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 7957 |===================== Tensorflow 2017-02-03 Build: Cifar10 Seconds < Lower Is Better GP1-XS EPYC ......... 153.60 |==================================== GP1-S EPYC .......... 93.74 |====================== m5a.2xlarge ......... 114.94 |=========================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 210.53 |================================================= 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 ......... 4.60 |===================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 6.32 |=================================================== 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 ......... 63.23 |=========== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 100.36 |================== 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 ......... 260 |============== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 505 |=========================== 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 ......... 20.82 |============================= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 35.32 |================================================== 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 ......... 523 |============================ m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 274 |=============== 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 ......... 26.40 |=========================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 14.51 |======================== 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 ......... 6.96968 |========== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 13.73717 |==================== 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 ......... 0.70 |============================= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 1.24 |=================================================== 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 ......... 5258 |========================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 2694 |============= 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 ......... 7310692 |=============================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 7497312 |================================================ Apache Siege 2.4.29 Concurrent Users: 250 Transactions Per Second > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC . 2245 |=========================================================== Apache Siege 2.4.29 Performance / Cost - Concurrent Users: 250 Transactions Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better GP1-XS EPYC . 28061.63 |======================================================= 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 ......... 38.92 |================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 45.92 |===================== 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 ......... 5.50 |============= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 7.44 |================== 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 |========================= 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 ......... 748 |============= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 1461 |========================= 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 ......... 164.60 |========================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 306.76 |================================================= 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 ......... 11.20 |================= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 12.16 |=================== 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 ......... 229 |==================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 443 |======================================= 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 ......... 16.05 |============================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 26.61 |================================================== 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 ......... 0.88 |=================================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 0.77 |============================================= 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Performance / Cost - Compress Speed Test MIPS Per Dollar > Higher Is Better GP1-S EPYC .......... 1857300.00 |============================================= m5a.2xlarge ......... 1479500.00 |==================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 795700.00 |=================== 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 ......... 1.26 |======================= m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 1.00 |================== 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 ......... 0.39 |=========================================== m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 0.46 |=================================================== 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 |====== OpenSSL 1.1.1 Performance / Cost - RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better m5a.2xlarge . 52300.00 |======================================================= x264 2018-09-25 Performance / Cost - H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second Per Dollar > Higher Is Better m5a.2xlarge ......... 2640.00 |================================================ m5a.xlarge EPYC EC2 . 1451.00 |==========================