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 Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 @ 3.00GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X10DAI v1.02, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon, Memory: 8 x 8192 MB DDR4-2400MT/s Samsung, Disk: 240GB BIWIN SSD, Graphics: NVIDIA GP102 [TITAN Xp], Audio: Realtek ALC888-VD, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.6, Compiler: CUDA 9.1, File-System: ext4 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 |============================================= Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 70.04 |============================================ 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 |============= Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 6.69 |================================ 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 |============================================= Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 15.71 |========================================= Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 817.44 |============================================ 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 397.43 |===================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 256.15 |============== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 355.63 |=================== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 179.96 |========== 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 |============== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 108.53 |============================================ 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 |========================= Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 21.94 |============================================= 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 |============================================= Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 21.00 |================================= 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 |=================================== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 60.21 |===================== 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 |======================== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 38283 |============ Timed GCC Compilation 7.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 1070.70 |=========================================== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 591.32 |======================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 707.34 |============================ AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 926.08 |===================================== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 1078.50 |=========================================== 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 |======================= Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 76.18 |============================================= 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 |=============== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 10.43 |============================================= 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 |============================================== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 4411 |======================================== 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 |=========== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 13.65 |============ 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 |=========================== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 40.81 |======================== OpenSSL 1.1.0f RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 2104.87 |=========== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 7965.40 |=========================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 4598.47 |========================= AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 4387.47 |======================== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 2608.63 |============== Redis 4.0.8 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 1049994.41 |================= 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 2515784.92 |======================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 1703353.37 |=========================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 1639124.13 |========================== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 1664374.63 |========================== Redis 4.0.8 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Raptor Talos II .......... 606874.10 |============== 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 . 1744256.79 |======================================== AMD EPYC 7601 ............ 1195935.33 |=========================== AMD EPYC 7551 ............ 1161953.33 |=========================== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 1185182.45 |=========================== 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 |===================== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 1539 |=============== 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 |=========================== Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4 .... 448353 |================================= 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 |============================================= 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 |============================================ 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 |=============================================