Intel Xeon Ice Lake Mitigation Comparison Intel CPU Xeon Scalable Ice Lake mitigation benchmark impact by Michael Larabel for a future article. Default: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 @ 3.40GHz (80 Cores / 160 Threads), Motherboard: Intel M50CYP2SB2U (SE5C6200.86B.0022.D08.2103221623 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 0998, Memory: 504GB, Disk: 800GB INTEL SSDPF21Q800GB, Graphics: ASPEED, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel X710 for 10GBASE-T + 2 x Intel E810-C for QSFP OS: Ubuntu 21.04, Kernel: 5.11.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.38.4, Display Server: X Server, Compiler: GCC 10.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 mitigations=off: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 @ 3.40GHz (80 Cores / 160 Threads), Motherboard: Intel M50CYP2SB2U (SE5C6200.86B.0022.D08.2103221623 BIOS), Chipset: Intel Device 0998, Memory: 504GB, Disk: 800GB INTEL SSDPF21Q800GB, Graphics: ASPEED, Monitor: VE228, Network: 2 x Intel X710 for 10GBASE-T + 2 x Intel E810-C for QSFP OS: Ubuntu 21.04, Kernel: 5.11.0-17-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.38.4, Display Server: X Server, Compiler: GCC 10.3.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 ctx_clock Context Switch Time Clocks < Lower Is Better Default ......... 228 |======================================================== mitigations=off . 228 |======================================================== Sockperf 3.4 Test: Throughput Messages Per Second > Higher Is Better Default ......... 315557 |==================================================== mitigations=off . 320939 |===================================================== Sockperf 3.4 Test: Latency Ping Pong usec < Lower Is Better Default ......... 8.347 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 8.362 |====================================================== DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: H2 msec < Lower Is Better Default ......... 10754 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 10710 |====================================================== DaCapo Benchmark 9.12-MR1 Java Test: Tradebeans msec < Lower Is Better Default ......... 17045 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 16796 |===================================================== Renaissance 0.10.0 Test: Scala Dotty ms < Lower Is Better Default ......... 1791.67 |==================================================== mitigations=off . 1737.25 |================================================== Renaissance 0.10.0 Test: Random Forest ms < Lower Is Better Default ......... 2991.85 |==================================================== mitigations=off . 2925.44 |=================================================== Renaissance 0.10.0 Test: Apache Spark ALS ms < Lower Is Better Default ......... 3448.86 |==================================================== mitigations=off . 3422.74 |==================================================== Renaissance 0.10.0 Test: Twitter HTTP Requests ms < Lower Is Better Default ......... 6118.78 |==================================================== mitigations=off . 6172.60 |==================================================== Renaissance 0.10.0 Test: In-Memory Database Shootout ms < Lower Is Better Default ......... 18901.32 |=================================================== mitigations=off . 19055.47 |=================================================== Renaissance 0.10.0 Test: Akka Unbalanced Cobwebbed Tree ms < Lower Is Better Default ......... 30002.43 |=================================================== mitigations=off . 30102.52 |=================================================== Renaissance 0.10.0 Test: Genetic Algorithm Using Jenetics + Futures ms < Lower Is Better Default ......... 6677.15 |==================================================== mitigations=off . 6637.16 |==================================================== VOSK Speech Recognition Toolkit 0.3.21 Seconds < Lower Is Better Default ......... 28.62 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 28.40 |====================================================== Chia Blockchain VDF 1.0.1 Test: Square Plain C++ IPS > Higher Is Better Default ......... 139967 |===================================================== mitigations=off . 140200 |===================================================== Mobile Neural Network 1.1.3 Model: SqueezeNetV1.0 ms < Lower Is Better Default ......... 4.868 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 4.743 |===================================================== Mobile Neural Network 1.1.3 Model: inception-v3 ms < Lower Is Better Default ......... 25.90 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 25.47 |===================================================== TensorFlow Lite 2020-08-23 Model: SqueezeNet Microseconds < Lower Is Better Default ......... 47669.7 |==================================================== mitigations=off . 47385.9 |==================================================== TensorFlow Lite 2020-08-23 Model: Inception V4 Microseconds < Lower Is Better Default ......... 691668 |===================================================== mitigations=off . 680103 |==================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Default ......... 6214 |======================================================= mitigations=off . 6199 |======================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 5.10.20 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Default ......... 24.78 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 24.76 |====================================================== Timed Godot Game Engine Compilation 3.2.3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Default ......... 74.88 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 74.94 |====================================================== Timed Mesa Compilation 21.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Default ......... 18.96 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 19.01 |====================================================== Timed Node.js Compilation 15.11 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Default ......... 101.31 |===================================================== mitigations=off . 102.11 |===================================================== Apache HBase 2.2.3 Test: Increment - Clients: 1 Rows Per Second > Higher Is Better Default ......... 566 |======================================================== mitigations=off . 565 |======================================================== Apache HBase 2.2.3 Test: Increment - Clients: 1 Microseconds - Average Latency < Lower Is Better Default ......... 1762 |======================================================= mitigations=off . 1767 |======================================================= Apache HBase 2.2.3 Test: Random Read - Clients: 1 Rows Per Second > Higher Is Better Default ......... 907 |======================================================== mitigations=off . 879 |====================================================== Apache HBase 2.2.3 Test: Random Read - Clients: 1 Microseconds - Average Latency < Lower Is Better Default ......... 1097 |===================================================== mitigations=off . 1132 |======================================================= Apache HBase 2.2.3 Test: Random Write - Clients: 1 Rows Per Second > Higher Is Better Default ......... 25670 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 25804 |====================================================== Apache HBase 2.2.3 Test: Random Write - Clients: 1 Microseconds - Average Latency < Lower Is Better Default ......... 37 |======================================================== mitigations=off . 38 |========================================================= Apache HBase 2.2.3 Test: Sequential Read - Clients: 1 Rows Per Second > Higher Is Better Default ......... 922 |======================================================== mitigations=off . 909 |======================================================= Apache HBase 2.2.3 Test: Sequential Read - Clients: 1 Microseconds - Average Latency < Lower Is Better Default ......... 1081 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 1096 |======================================================= Apache HBase 2.2.3 Test: Sequential Write - Clients: 1 Rows Per Second > Higher Is Better Default ......... 30564 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 30602 |====================================================== Apache HBase 2.2.3 Test: Sequential Write - Clients: 1 Microseconds - Average Latency < Lower Is Better Default ......... 31 |========================================================= mitigations=off . 31 |========================================================= InfluxDB 1.8.2 Concurrent Streams: 4 - Batch Size: 10000 - Tags: 2,5000,1 - Points Per Series: 10000 val/sec > Higher Is Better Default ......... 721644.5 |=================================================== mitigations=off . 727924.4 |=================================================== InfluxDB 1.8.2 Concurrent Streams: 64 - Batch Size: 10000 - Tags: 2,5000,1 - Points Per Series: 10000 val/sec > Higher Is Better Default ......... 1188389.4 |================================================== mitigations=off . 1196123.7 |================================================== KeyDB 6.0.16 Ops/sec > Higher Is Better Default ......... 516052.16 |================================================== mitigations=off . 508188.29 |================================================= Redis 6.0.9 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Default ......... 1720526.95 |================================================ mitigations=off . 1762944.93 |================================================= SQLite Speedtest 3.30 Timed Time - Size 1,000 Seconds < Lower Is Better Default ......... 59.56 |===================================================== mitigations=off . 60.18 |====================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 13.0 Scaling Factor: 100 - Clients: 250 - Mode: Read Only TPS > Higher Is Better Default ......... 957966 |===================================================== mitigations=off . 958345 |===================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 13.0 Scaling Factor: 100 - Clients: 250 - Mode: Read Only - Average Latency ms < Lower Is Better Default ......... 0.263 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 0.262 |====================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 13.0 Scaling Factor: 100 - Clients: 250 - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Default ......... 28904 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 28865 |====================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 13.0 Scaling Factor: 100 - Clients: 250 - Mode: Read Write - Average Latency ms < Lower Is Better Default ......... 8.682 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 8.695 |====================================================== PJSIP 2.11 Method: INVITE Responses Per Second > Higher Is Better Default ......... 2588 |====================================================== mitigations=off . 2623 |======================================================= PJSIP 2.11 Method: OPTIONS, Stateful Responses Per Second > Higher Is Better Default ......... 3821 |======================================================= mitigations=off . 3813 |======================================================= PJSIP 2.11 Method: OPTIONS, Stateless Responses Per Second > Higher Is Better Default ......... 40482 |===================================================== mitigations=off . 41291 |======================================================