Talos II Raptor POWER9 System AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon vs. POWER9 CPUs. Benchmarks for a future article. Raptor Talos II: Processor: POWER9 altivec supported @ 3.80GHz (64 Cores), Motherboard: PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.00, Memory: 262144MB, Disk: 500GB MAXTOR STM350063, Graphics: AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 8192MB, Audio: AMD Ellesmere, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-rc4 (ppc64le) 20180307, Display Driver: amdgpu 1.4.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN S7106 (V1.00 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MT/s Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1, Disk: 256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD EPYC 7601: Processor: AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN B8026T70AE24HR (V0.05.B10 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 8 x 16384 MB DDR4-2666MT/s Samsung M393A2K40BB2-CTD, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Monitor: VE228, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 AMD EPYC 7551: Processor: AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core @ 2.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0-00 v01010101 (F03 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Family 17h, Memory: 28672MB, Disk: 2 x Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB, Graphics: llvmpipe 28032MB, Audio: NVIDIA GM204 HD Audio, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Debian testing, Kernel: 4.16.0-041600-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.28.0, Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 2 x Intel Xeon X5550: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTG-D (080016 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 12 x 4096 MB 1066MHz Nanya M2L4G72CB4NA1N-CG, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5002ABYS-0, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Monitor: DELL E197FP, Network: 2 x Intel 82576 + Mellanox MT27500 Family OS: Debian 9.8, Kernel: 4.9.0-7-amd64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.19.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.2, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 hpcgpu0: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.67GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads), Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTG-D (080016 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 5520 I/O + ICH10R, Memory: 12 x 4096 MB 1066MHz Nanya M2L4G72CB4NA1N-CG, Disk: 500GB Western Digital WD5002ABYS-0, Graphics: Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Monitor: DELL E197FP, Network: 2 x Intel 82576 + Mellanox MT27500 Family OS: Debian 9.8, Kernel: 4.9.0-7-amd64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.19.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.2, Compiler: GCC 6.3.0 20170516 + CUDA 8.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP LBM Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 66.08 |=================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 30.18 |========= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 37.39 |=========== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 71.88 |==================== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 154.51 |============================================ hpcgpu0 .................. 149.77 |=========================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 9.69 |===================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 2.28 |========= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 2.61 |========== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 2.76 |=========== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 11.75 |============================================= hpcgpu0 .................. 11.76 |============================================= Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 10.51 |=================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 6.01 |=========== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 14.26 |========================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 17.35 |=============================== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 25.23 |============================================= hpcgpu0 .................. 24.95 |============================================= Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 817 |=============================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 397 |======================= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 256 |=============== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 356 |==================== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 107 |====== hpcgpu0 .................. 107 |====== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 38.58 |========== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 27.10 |======= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 32.59 |======== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 34.79 |========= 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 176.80 |============================================ hpcgpu0 .................. 177.32 |============================================ Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 19.09 |=============== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 10.00 |======== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 10.71 |========= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 12.27 |========== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 55.53 |============================================= hpcgpu0 .................. 55.52 |============================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 27.80 |==================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 14.51 |========== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 17.46 |============ AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 28.79 |==================== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 64.11 |============================================= hpcgpu0 .................. 59.51 |========================================== x264 2018-02-05 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 43.72 |=============== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 127.28 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 128.17 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 101.52 |=================================== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 39.45 |============== hpcgpu0 .................. 39.61 |============== 7-Zip Compression 16.02 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 82447 |========================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 143505 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 99574 |=============================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 79708 |======================== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 29638 |========= hpcgpu0 .................. 29583 |========= Timed GCC Compilation 7.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 1071 |=================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 591 |=================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 707 |======================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 926 |============================== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 1412 |============================================== hpcgpu0 .................. 1412 |============================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 72.61 |======================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 27.80 |========= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 35.66 |=========== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 39.30 |============= 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 135.83 |============================================ hpcgpu0 .................. 136.53 |============================================ C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 4.65 |============ 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 3.15 |======== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 3.46 |========= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 3.59 |========== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 16.78 |============================================= hpcgpu0 .................. 16.75 |============================================= Stockfish 2014-11-26 Total Time ms < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 4915 |============================================ 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 3343 |============================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 4474 |======================================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 5032 |============================================= 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 5071 |============================================== hpcgpu0 .................. 5093 |============================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.2 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 51.79 |============================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 10.27 |========= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 11.79 |========== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 12.71 |=========== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 20.81 |================== hpcgpu0 .................. 21.03 |================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.100 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 75.27 |============================================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 33.20 |==================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 43.57 |========================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 45.69 |=========================== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 58.78 |=================================== hpcgpu0 .................. 58.11 |=================================== OpenSSL 1.1.0f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 2105 |============ 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 7965 |============================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 4598 |=========================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 4387 |========================= 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 592 |=== hpcgpu0 .................. 594 |=== Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 1049994 |================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 2515785 |=========================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 1703353 |============================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 1639124 |============================ 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 1297822 |====================== hpcgpu0 .................. 1165266 |==================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 606874 |=============== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 1744257 |=========================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 1195935 |============================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 1161953 |============================= 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 883849 |====================== hpcgpu0 .................. 923736 |======================= PyBench 2018-02-16 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 4859 |============================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 1395 |============= AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 2086 |==================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 2216 |===================== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 2612 |========================= hpcgpu0 .................. 2606 |========================= PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 163208 |============ 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 602467 |============================================ AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 393659 |============================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 365767 |=========================== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 265243 |=================== hpcgpu0 .................. 264690 |=================== OSBench Test: Create Threads us Per Event < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 27.17 |================================ 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 23.07 |=========================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 30.71 |==================================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 38.25 |============================================= 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 17.90 |===================== hpcgpu0 .................. 18.48 |====================== OSBench Test: Create Processes us Per Event < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 29.77 |====================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 42.95 |================================ AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 59.61 |============================================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 57.95 |============================================ 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 34.73 |========================== hpcgpu0 .................. 33.10 |========================= OSBench Test: Memory Allocations Ns Per Event < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 83.03 |============================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 96.05 |================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 95.14 |================================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 96.32 |================================== 2 x Intel Xeon X5550 ..... 123.37 |============================================ hpcgpu0 .................. 124.09 |============================================