AMD EPYC vs. ARM vs. POWER9 vs. Intel Xeon Benchmarks

Initial benchmarks for a future article of AMD EPYC 7742 2P performance against EPYC 7601 2P and dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Cascade Lake and Cavium ThunderX, Ampere eMAG, and POWER9 Talos II by Michael Larabel

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ARM Ampere eMAG
July 30 2019
  5 Hours, 22 Minutes
ARM Cavium ThunderX
July 30 2019
  11 Hours, 46 Minutes
POWER9 Talos II 44c - 176t
August 17 2019
  3 Hours, 40 Minutes
EPYC 7601
July 10 2019
  3 Hours, 47 Minutes
2 x EPYC 7601
July 12 2019
  4 Hours, 16 Minutes
EPYC 7742
July 23 2019
  2 Hours, 15 Minutes
2 x EPYC 7742
July 22 2019
  3 Hours, 6 Minutes
EPYC 7502
July 24 2019
  2 Hours, 21 Minutes
2 x EPYC 7502
July 24 2019
  2 Hours, 43 Minutes
2 x Xeon Gold 6138
July 14 2019
  2 Hours, 54 Minutes
Xeon Platinum 8280
July 21 2019
  2 Hours, 25 Minutes
2 x Xeon Platinum 8280
July 15 2019
  2 Hours, 34 Minutes
EPYC 7551
August 06 2019
  3 Hours, 59 Minutes
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AMD EPYC vs. ARM vs. POWER9 vs. Intel Xeon Benchmarks Initial benchmarks for a future article of AMD EPYC 7742 2P performance against EPYC 7601 2P and dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 Cascade Lake and Cavium ThunderX, Ampere eMAG, and POWER9 Talos II by Michael Larabel ,,"ARM Ampere eMAG","ARM Cavium ThunderX","POWER9 Talos II 44c - 176t","EPYC 7601","2 x EPYC 7601","EPYC 7742","2 x EPYC 7742","EPYC 7502","2 x EPYC 7502","2 x Xeon Gold 6138","Xeon Platinum 8280","2 x Xeon Platinum 8280","EPYC 7551" Processor,,Ampere eMAG ARMv8 @ 3.30GHz (32 Cores),Cavium ThunderX (96 Cores),POWER9 @ 3.80GHz (44 Cores / 176 Threads),AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads),2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core (64 Cores / 128 Threads),AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core @ 2.25GHz (64 Cores / 128 Threads),2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core @ 2.25GHz (128 Cores / 256 Threads),AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core @ 2.50GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads),2 x AMD EPYC 7502 32-Core @ 2.50GHz (64 Cores / 128 Threads),2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads),Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 @ 4.00GHz (28 Cores / 56 Threads),2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 @ 4.00GHz (56 Cores / 112 Threads),AMD EPYC 7551 32-Core @ 2.00GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads) Motherboard,,Lenovo FALCON (HVE104D-1.02 BIOS),FOXCONN C2U4N_MB (G31FB18A BIOS),PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01,TYAN B8026T70AE24HR (V1.02.B10 BIOS),Dell 02MJ3T (1.2.5 BIOS),AMD DAYTONA_X (RDY1001C BIOS),AMD DAYTONA_X (RDY1001C BIOS),AMD DAYTONA_X (RDY1001C BIOS),AMD DAYTONA_X (RDY1001C BIOS),TYAN S7106 (V2.00.B20 BIOS),GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 (T15 BIOS),GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 (T15 BIOS),GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0-00 v01010101 (F10 BIOS) Chipset,,Ampere Computing LLC Skylark,,,AMD 17h,AMD 17h,AMD Device 1480,AMD Device 1480,AMD Device 1480,AMD Device 1480,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,AMD 17h Memory,,8 x 16384 MB DDR4-2667MT/s Samsung M393A2K43CB2-CTD,129024MB,65536MB,8 x 16384 MB DDR4-2666MHz Samsung,16 x 32 GB DDR4-2400MT/s 36ASF4G72PZ-2G6D2,8 x 32 GB DDR4-3200MT/s 36ASF4G72PZ-3G2E2,16 x 32 GB DDR4-3200MT/s 36ASF4G72PZ-3G2E2,8 x 32 GB DDR4-3200MT/s 36ASF4G72PZ-3G2E2,16 x 32 GB DDR4-3200MT/s 36ASF4G72PZ-3G2E2,12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MT/s Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1,6 x 32 GB DDR4-2933MT/s HMA84GR7CJR4N-WM,12 x 32 GB DDR4-2933MT/s HMA84GR7CJR4N-WM,32768MB Disk,,480GB Micron_5200_MTFD,250GB Samsung SSD 850,Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1,280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA,280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA + 19 x 500GB Samsung SSD 860 + 120GB SSDSCKJB120G7R,280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA + 3 x 3841GB Micron_9300_MTFDHAL3T8TDP + 256GB Micron_1100_MTFD,280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA + 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA + 5 x 3841GB Micron_9300_MTFDHAL3T8TDP + 256GB Micron_1100_MTFD,280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA + 3 x 3841GB Micron_9300_MTFDHAL3T8TDP + 256GB Micron_1100_MTFD,280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA + 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA + 5 x 3841GB Micron_9300_MTFDHAL3T8TDP + 256GB Micron_1100_MTFD,280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA,280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA,280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA,280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA + Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB Graphics,,ASPEED,EFI VGA,ASPEED,llvmpipe 126GB,llvmpipe 504GB,llvmpipe 252GB,llvmpipe 504GB,llvmpipe 252GB,llvmpipe 504GB,llvmpipe 93GB,llvmpipe 188GB,llvmpipe 377GB,llvmpipe 31GB Network,,2 x Mellanox MT27710,,2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5719 PCIe,2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 PCIe,2 x Broadcom BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA + 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 PCIe,2 x Mellanox MT27710,2 x Mellanox MT27710,2 x Mellanox MT27710,2 x Mellanox MT27710,2 x Intel I210 + 2 x QLogic cLOM8214 1/10GbE,2 x Intel X722 for 1GbE + 2 x QLogic FastLinQ QL41000 10/25/40/50GbE,2 x Intel X722 for 1GbE + 2 x QLogic FastLinQ QL41000 10/25/40/50GbE,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Monitor,,,,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228 OS,,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 18.04,Ubuntu 19.04,Ubuntu 19.04,Ubuntu 19.04,Ubuntu 19.04,Ubuntu 19.04,Ubuntu 19.04,Ubuntu 19.04,Ubuntu 19.04,Ubuntu 19.04,Ubuntu 19.04,Ubuntu 19.04 Kernel,,4.15.0-46-generic (aarch64),4.15.0-36-generic (aarch64),5.0.0-13-generic (ppc64le),5.2.0-050200rc7-generic (x86_64) 20190630,5.2.0-050200rc7-generic (x86_64) 20190630,5.2.0-050200rc7-generic (x86_64) 20190630,5.2.0-050200rc7-generic (x86_64) 20190630,5.2.0-050200rc7-generic (x86_64) 20190630,5.2.0-050200rc7-generic (x86_64) 20190630,5.2.0-050200rc7-generic (x86_64) 20190630,5.2.0-050200rc7-generic (x86_64) 20190630,5.2.0-050200rc7-generic (x86_64) 20190630,5.3.0-rc1-power (x86_64) 20190728 Compiler,,GCC 7.4.0,GCC 7.4.0,GCC 8.3.0,GCC 8.3.0,GCC 8.3.0,GCC 8.3.0,GCC 8.3.0,GCC 8.3.0,GCC 8.3.0,GCC 8.3.0,GCC 8.3.0,GCC 8.3.0,GCC 8.3.0 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1024x768,800x600,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080 Desktop,,,,,GNOME Shell 3.32.1,GNOME Shell 3.32.1,GNOME Shell 3.32.1,GNOME Shell 3.32.1,GNOME Shell 3.32.1,GNOME Shell 3.32.1,GNOME Shell 3.32.1,GNOME Shell 3.32.1,GNOME Shell 3.32.1,GNOME Shell 3.32.1 Display Server,,,,,X Server 1.20.4,X Server 1.20.4,X Server 1.20.4,X Server 1.20.4,X Server 1.20.4,X Server 1.20.4,X Server 1.20.4,X Server 1.20.4,X Server 1.20.4,X Server 1.20.4 Display Driver,,,,,modesetting 1.20.4,modesetting 1.20.4,modesetting 1.20.4,modesetting 1.20.4,modesetting 1.20.4,modesetting 1.20.4,modesetting 1.20.4,modesetting 1.20.4,modesetting 1.20.4,modesetting 1.20.4 OpenGL,,,,,3.3 Mesa 19.0.2 (LLVM 8.0 128 bits),3.3 Mesa 19.0.2 (LLVM 8.0 128 bits),3.3 Mesa 19.0.2 (LLVM 8.0 128 bits),3.3 Mesa 19.0.2 (LLVM 8.0 128 bits),3.3 Mesa 19.0.2 (LLVM 8.0 128 bits),3.3 Mesa 19.0.2 (LLVM 8.0 128 bits),3.3 Mesa 19.0.2 (LLVM 8.0 256 bits),3.3 Mesa 19.0.2 (LLVM 8.0 256 bits),3.3 Mesa 19.0.2 (LLVM 8.0 256 bits),3.3 Mesa 19.0.2 (LLVM 8.0 128 bits) ,,"ARM Ampere eMAG","ARM Cavium ThunderX","POWER9 Talos II 44c - 176t","EPYC 7601","2 x EPYC 7601","EPYC 7742","2 x EPYC 7742","EPYC 7502","2 x EPYC 7502","2 x Xeon Gold 6138","Xeon Platinum 8280","2 x Xeon Platinum 8280","EPYC 7551" "Numpy Benchmark - (Nanoseconds)",LIB,12950112,39150170,9855388,8538380,8438360,7158718,7293691,7229657,7349944,5641839,5213433,5180051,9150607 "Timed GCC Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,2320.49,3408.54,996.97,1002.10,793.83,735.79,723.51,769.84,743.04,1039.73,930.45,891.11,1049.36 "Renaissance - Test: Savina Reactors.IO (ms)",LIB,45392.76,129676.71,43120.63,27949.15,44534.68,19216.59,30851.62,18697.66,27512.56,29906.37,22732.24,27155.25,29848.93 "Renaissance - Test: Apache Spark PageRank (ms)",LIB,53549.86,112551.01,32591.31,28570.24,35485.06,21441.02,25975.61,21197.39,24044.03,25791.25,20316.40,23089.85,30730.10 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Tradebeans (msec)",LIB,23960,18820,49294,10418,7293,7409,7720,6695,7585,12362,10943,11879,11099 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,48475,38499,161493,92383,127249,278741,347497,170352,253482,141041,141201,228891,80758 "OpenCV Benchmark - (sec)",LIB,196.77,433.96,145.42,110.84,120.08,89.79,99.95,84.52,94.63,107.19,88.32,111.71,117.39 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,206.59,281.09,45.29,36.93,23.60,20.59,16.10,27.63,19.64,32.03,31.11,21.36,41.20 "Hackbench - Count: 32 - Type: Process (sec)",LIB,88.13,138.62,23.84,50.19,43.29,19.50,14.72,35.00,25.55,57.62,38.13,36.68,57.46 "Renaissance - Test: Scala Dotty (ms)",LIB,25606.01,41497.96,8860.86,9180.19,9580.11,6530.05,7515.51,6486.61,7065.39,7868.69,6556.00,6790.53,10140.28 "Timed LLVM Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,553.36,601.65,153.50,194.56,134.26,102.42,79.37,145.45,97.89,154.44,160.18,106.79,237.09 "Rust Mandelbrot - Time To Complete Serial/Parallel Mandelbrot (sec)",LIB,75.66,174.06,68.91,48.79,47.09,39.06,38.69,41.20,39.82,48.13,43.50,41.90,51.87 "PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,3179,9511,1834,1468,1476,1198,1201,1234,1226,1087,1016,1017,1562 "C-Ray - Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel (sec)",LIB,71.83,66.81,17.65,24.43,12.36,11.90,6.22,20.92,10.84,27.16,27.90,14.34,25.36 "PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,198598,71567,335657,395885,398029,487501,501542,493974,494250,598152,644388,644329,372610 "Stress-NG - Test: CPU Stress (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,2068.06,2199.42,12478.41,7694.83,15556.61,17473.98,34853.01,9491.19,19098.11,12901.62,8972.66,18180.54,7305.42 "Stress-NG - Test: Crypto (Bogo Ops/s)",HIB,3616.14,5015.05,8278.77,5878.33,11949.04,13062.41,25563.46,7276.13,14362.44,6177.27,5271.73,10521.49,5654.34 "POV-Ray - Trace Time (sec)",LIB,51.79,64.98,21.60,22.33,12.74,10.83,8.35,17.39,10.33,19.60,20.69,12.06,22.26 "Rodinia - Test: OpenMP LavaMD (sec)",LIB,77.45,70.91,13.22,13.26,6.88,6.41,4.61,10.86,5.96,11.82,12.51,7.02,12.71 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,34.37,22.88,46.58,106.67,144.18,156.48,155.61,150.61,145.49,110.48,115.53,118.16,99.83 "DaCapo Benchmark - Java Test: Jython (msec)",LIB,15060,31528,7086,6527,6466,5181,5419,5137,5301,4682,4453,4645,7101 "libjpeg-turbo tjbench - Test: Decompression Throughput (Megapixels/sec)",HIB,67.79,26.88,105.61,135.13,134.35,171.59,170.07,169.19,168.80,175.35,190.24,187.63,126.87