AMD EPYC vs. Intel Xeon RocksDB 
2 x AMD EPYC 7601 + EPYC 7742 vs. Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 benchmarks by Michael Larabel with Facebook's RocksDB benchmark.


AMD EPYC 7742 2P: 

	Processor: 2 x AMD EPYC 7742 64-Core @ 2.25GHz (128 Cores / 256 Threads), Motherboard: AMD DAYTONA_X (RDY1001C BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 516096MB, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA, Graphics: llvmpipe 504GB, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Mellanox MT27710

	OS: Ubuntu 19.10, Kernel: 5.3.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 19.2.1 (LLVM 9.0 128 bits), Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191008, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2P: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 @ 4.00GHz (56 Cores / 112 Threads), Motherboard: GIGABYTE MD61-SC2-00 v01000100 (T15 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers, Memory: 386048MB, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA, Graphics: llvmpipe 377GB, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel X722 for 1GbE + 2 x QLogic FastLinQ QL41000 10/25/40/50GbE

	OS: Ubuntu 19.10, Kernel: 5.3.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 19.2.1 (LLVM 9.0 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191008, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

AMD EPYC 7601 2P: 

	Processor: 2 x AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core (64 Cores / 128 Threads), Motherboard: Dell 02MJ3T (1.2.5 BIOS), Chipset: AMD 17h, Memory: 516096MB, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPED1D280GA, Graphics: llvmpipe 504GB, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Broadcom BCM57416 NetXtreme-E Dual-Media 10G RDMA + 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 2-port PCIe

	OS: Ubuntu 19.10, Kernel: 5.3.0-18-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.34.1, Display Server: X Server 1.20.5, Display Driver: modesetting 1.20.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 19.2.1 (LLVM 9.0 128 bits), Compiler: GCC 9.2.1 20191008, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x1200


Facebook RocksDB 6.3.6
Test: Random Fill
Op/s > Higher Is Better
AMD EPYC 7742 2P ............ 267685 |=========================================
Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 193912 |==============================
AMD EPYC 7601 2P ............ 188347 |=============================


Facebook RocksDB 6.3.6
Test: Random Read
Op/s > Higher Is Better
AMD EPYC 7742 2P ............ 408115639 |======================================
Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 244867004 |=======================
AMD EPYC 7601 2P ............ 243267520 |=======================


Facebook RocksDB 6.3.6
Test: Sequential Fill
Op/s > Higher Is Better
AMD EPYC 7742 2P ............ 269049 |=========================================
Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 194172 |==============================
AMD EPYC 7601 2P ............ 199470 |==============================


Facebook RocksDB 6.3.6
Test: Random Fill Sync
Op/s > Higher Is Better
AMD EPYC 7742 2P ............ 230220 |=========================================
Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 166399 |==============================
AMD EPYC 7601 2P ............ 156772 |============================


Facebook RocksDB 6.3.6
Test: Read While Writing
Op/s > Higher Is Better
AMD EPYC 7742 2P ............ 11995818 |=======================================
Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2P . 6331092  |=====================
AMD EPYC 7601 2P ............ 5044386  |================