IBM POWER9 vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Linux CPU benchmarking on Debian Testing. POWER9 tests on Talos II hardware. Tests for a future article.
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POWER9 vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Linux Benchmarks
IBM POWER9 vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Linux CPU benchmarking on Debian Testing. POWER9 tests on Talos II hardware. Tests for a future article.
,,"Talos II POWER9 Dual 4 Core","Talos II Lite POWER9 22 Core","Talos II POWER9 Dual 18-Core","Xeon E3-1280 v5","Xeon E5-1680 v3","Xeon E5-2609 v4","Xeon E5-2687W v3","Xeon Silver 4108","2 x Xeon Gold 6138","EPYC 7251","EPYC 7351P","EPYC 7401P","EPYC 7601","i72600k-RicZed","Ryzen-5-1600-szydell"
Processor,,POWER9 altivec supported @ 4.20GHz (32 Cores),POWER9 altivec supported @ 4.20GHz (88 Cores),POWER9 altivec supported @ 4.20GHz (144 Cores),Intel Xeon E3-1280 v5 @ 4.00GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads),Intel Xeon E5-1680 v3 @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads),Intel Xeon E5-2609 v4 @ 1.70GHz (8 Cores),Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (10 Cores / 20 Threads),Intel Xeon Silver 4108 @ 3.00GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads),2 x Intel Xeon Gold 6138 @ 3.70GHz (40 Cores / 80 Threads),AMD EPYC 7251 8-Core @ 2.10GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads),AMD EPYC 7351P 16-Core @ 2.40GHz (16 Cores / 32 Threads),AMD EPYC 7401P 24-Core @ 2.00GHz (24 Cores / 48 Threads),AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads),Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.80GHz (8 Cores),AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core @ 3.20GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads)
Motherboard,,PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.01,PowerNV T2P9S01 REV 1.01,PowerNV T2P9D01 REV 1.00,MSI Z170A SLI PLUS (MS-7998) v1.0 (2.90 BIOS),ASUS X99-A (3902 BIOS),MSI X99A RAIDER (MS-7885) v5.0 (P.50 BIOS),MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0 (1.E5 BIOS),TYAN S7100AG2NR (V3.02 BIOS),TYAN S7106 (V1.01 BIOS),TYAN B8026T70AE24HR (V1.02.B10 BIOS),TYAN B8026T70AE24HR (V1.02.B10 BIOS),TYAN B8026T70AE24HR (V1.02.B10 BIOS),TYAN B8026T70AE24HR (V1.02.B10 BIOS),Intel ENB7510H.86A.0026.2012.0329.1439,Gigabyte B450M S2H V2 (F62c BIOS)
Memory,,131072MB,65536MB,262144MB,2 x 8192 MB DDR4-2133MT/s,4 x 4096 MB DDR4-2400MT/s CRUCIAL,4 x 4096 MB DDR4-2133MT/s,4 x 8192 MB DDR4-2133MT/s,6 x 4096 MB DDR4-2400MT/s Micron 9ASF51272PZ-2G6B1,12 x 8192 MB DDR4-2666MT/s Micron 9ASF1G72PZ-2G6B1,8 x 16384 MB DDR4-2400MT/s Samsung M393A2K40BB2-CTD,8 x 16384 MB DDR4-2667MT/s Samsung M393A2K40BB2-CTD,8 x 16384 MB DDR4-2667MT/s Samsung M393A2K40BB2-CTD,8 x 16384 MB DDR4-2667MT/s Samsung M393A2K40BB2-CTD,16384MB,2 x 32 GB DDR4-2666MT/s F4-2666C19-32GNT
Disk,,Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB,Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB,Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB,256GB SABRENT + 256GB TOSHIBA-RD400,60GB Patriot Torch + 256GB SABRENT,256GB SABRENT + 256GB CORSAIR FORCE LX,256GB SABRENT + 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08,256GB SABRENT + 240GB Force MP500,256GB Samsung SSD 850 + 2000GB Seagate ST2000DM006-2DM1 + 2 x 120GB TOSHIBA-TR150,256GB Samsung SSD 850,256GB Samsung SSD 850,256GB Samsung SSD 850,256GB Samsung SSD 850,120GB SanDisk SDSSDA12 + 320GB SAMSUNG HD322HJ + 1000GB Seagate ST1000DM003-1ER1,1024GB Patriot P300 1TB
Graphics,,ASPEED ASPEED Family 8192MB,AMD Radeon Pro WX 7100 8192MB,AMD Radeon Pro WX 4100 4096MB,llvmpipe 16000MB,eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1024MB,eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 1024MB,NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2048MB,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family,ASPEED ASPEED Family,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP,Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Audio,,AMD Ellesmere,AMD Ellesmere,AMD Device aae0,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC1150,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,Realtek ALC892,,,,,,Realtek ALC892,NVIDIA TU116 HD Audio
Monitor,,IPS235,IPS235,IPS235,ASUS PB278,ASUS PB278,ASUS PB278,ASUS PB278,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228,VE228,SyncMaster,PLE383
Network,,Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe,Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe,Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5719 Gigabit PCIe,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel Connection,Intel I350 Gigabit Connection,Intel I210 Gigabit Connection,Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe,Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe,Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe,Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe,Intel 82579V Gigabit Connection + Broadcom and subsidiaries BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411
Chipset,,,,,Intel Skylake,Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon,Intel Xeon E7 v4/Xeon,Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,Intel Sky Lake-E DMI3 Registers,AMD Family 17h,AMD Family 17h,AMD Family 17h,AMD Family 17h,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM,AMD 17h
OS,,Debian testing,Debian testing,Debian testing,Debian testing,Debian testing,Debian testing,Debian testing,Debian testing,Debian testing,Debian testing,Debian testing,Debian testing,Debian testing,neon 18.04,Fedora Linux 37
Kernel,,4.17.0 (ppc64le),4.17.0 (ppc64le),4.17.0 (ppc64le),4.17.0-phx (x86_64),4.17.0-phx (x86_64),4.17.0-phx (x86_64),4.17.0-phx (x86_64),4.17.0-phx (x86_64),4.17.0-phx (x86_64),4.17.0-phx (x86_64),4.17.0-phx (x86_64),4.17.0-phx (x86_64),4.17.0-phx (x86_64),5.3.0-26-generic (x86_64),6.2.8-200.fc37.x86_64 (x86_64)
Display Server,,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,,,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,X Server 1.19.6,,
Compiler,,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,GCC 7.3.0,,GCC 12.3.1 20230508
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,xfs
Screen Resolution,,1024x768,1024x768,1920x1080,2560x1440,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1920x1080,1440x900,1024x768
Display Driver,,,amdgpu 18.0.1,amdgpu 18.0.1,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,,,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,modesetting 1.19.6,nouveau
Desktop,,,,,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,GNOME Shell 3.28.2,KDE Frameworks 5,
OpenGL,,,,,3.3 Mesa 18.1.1 (LLVM 6.0 256 bits),,,,,,,,,,,
,,"Talos II POWER9 Dual 4 Core","Talos II Lite POWER9 22 Core","Talos II POWER9 Dual 18-Core","Xeon E3-1280 v5","Xeon E5-1680 v3","Xeon E5-2609 v4","Xeon E5-2687W v3","Xeon Silver 4108","2 x Xeon Gold 6138","EPYC 7251","EPYC 7351P","EPYC 7401P","EPYC 7601","i72600k-RicZed","Ryzen-5-1600-szydell"
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,50368,107719,158405,23866,41047,16660,44873,28580,139433,31580,59760,80034,92615,17073,29210
"Timed LLVM Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,354.23,189.74,141.79,737.68,442.87,916.95,410.10,591.22,127.08,518.76,263.86,206.97,171.58,1133.26,
"Stockfish - Total Time (Nodes/s)",HIB,21485986,49017904,73165064,11279577,19422058,8378064,21883200,12813924,69928856,16502174,33288170,43631563,58469775,8955721,15532414
"Parboil - Test: OpenMP LBM (sec)",LIB,113.43,63.06,44.18,165.91,96.02,189.13,96.56,127.86,34.56,90.29,45.86,40.01,38.72,288.52,
"Primesieve - 1e12 Prime Number Generation (sec)",LIB,40.47,28.32,18.81,62.07,42.83,71.76,37.97,51.43,10.63,40.69,19.77,16.08,12.15,87.45,44.382
"Parboil - Test: OpenMP CUTCP (sec)",LIB,15.39,7.38,4.95,12.08,7.35,15.67,6.46,10.89,2.32,7.54,4.18,3.43,2.69,18.18,
"POV-Ray - Trace Time (sec)",LIB,69.10,36.24,,105.52,65.27,149.22,55.91,159.23,22.29,68.52,35.27,28.09,21.74,,83.003
"Blender - Performance / Cost - Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CPU-Only (sec x Dollar)",LIB,1193625.00,,3860610.00,,,893155.34,,698230.92,4221091.45,703896.90,854433.60,1211954.08,4489613.92,,
"Blender - Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,1380.37,,829.10,1656.82,1042.97,2428.77,974.75,1433.62,415.84,1189.92,588.22,572.53,504.13,,
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,35.48,51.89,51.22,42.24,66.91,24.32,77.26,37.29,125.21,58.35,109.26,122.31,126.39,26.53,
"Blender - Performance / Cost - Blend File: Classroom - Compute: CPU-Only (sec x Dollar)",LIB,1035277.50,,2362935.00,,,774777.63,,643695.38,2228894.08,606859.20,479987.52,682455.76,2327064.08,,
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,43.99,44.03,43.95,9.60,11.21,27.22,11.99,12.69,10.47,13.44,13.35,13.09,12.19,14.80,9.859
"PostgreSQL pgbench - Performance / Cost - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS/Dollar)",HIB,296.91,168.42,201.51,,,224.57,,354.61,109.62,242.77,306.41,270.07,86.57,,
"7-Zip Compression - Performance / Cost - Compress Speed Test (MIPS/Dollar)",HIB,67.16,41.04,55.58,,,52.23,,63.65,26.01,61.92,73.24,67.14,20.06,,
"Blender - Blend File: Pabellon Barcelona - Compute: CPU-Only (sec)",LIB,1591.50,,1354.60,1745.08,1100.76,2799.86,946.54,1555.08,787.52,1380.19,1047.10,1016.74,972.62,,
"Stockfish - Performance / Cost - Total Time (Nodes/s/Dollar)",HIB,28647.98,18673.49,25671.95,,,26263.52,,28538.81,13046.48,32357.20,40794.33,36603.66,12666.76,,
"OpenSSL - Performance / Cost - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec/Dollar)",HIB,1.57,1.01,1.39,,,3.09,,2.86,1.47,2.44,3.06,2.97,1.00,,
"Timed GCC Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,1041.72,887.62,833.58,1053.77,810.80,1753.29,811.12,1141.21,570.57,1056.69,798.17,744.67,690.64,1640.43,
"PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,2087,2094,1867,1043,1238,2724,1343,1380,1127,1689,1692,1636,1538,1564,1349
"Tinymembench - Standard Memcpy (MB/s)",HIB,12418.40,15453,14515.40,12877.90,12384.60,7964,11472.50,8864.70,6015.50,11793.20,12445.10,12471.60,12613.20,8638.80,12503.1
"PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,391175,387357,373681,651532,576657,262741,531375,487806,606341,347078,352010,363085,386945,440743,
"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,67.49,67.49,67.48,30.14,33.01,71.77,35.81,39.84,32.29,47.14,47.11,45.59,42.67,37.62,36.781
"Scikit-Learn - (sec)",LIB,230.81,229.62,227.39,149.64,124.14,275.74,143.03,200.69,176.07,159.27,158.87,153.83,144.51,,
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,1174.00,2643.33,3971.90,1121.90,1272.70,986.77,1454.17,1283.17,7864.47,1243.47,2496.17,3540.07,4619.07,530.43,
"PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Only (TPS)",HIB,222683.89,442106.87,574297.61,116058.21,167115.67,71637.85,179161.82,159219.86,587539.12,123810.52,250031.97,321921.63,399625.48,66177.92,4.198036
"Zstd Compression - Performance / Cost - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 (sec x Dollar)",LIB,81817.50,269036.25,304779.00,,,57544.41,,69644.39,632263.24,93829.80,141127.20,203164.48,754023.60,,
"PHPBench - Performance / Cost - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score/Dollar)",HIB,521.57,147.56,131.12,,,823.64,,1086.43,113.12,680.55,431.38,304.60,83.83,,
"Zstd Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 19 (sec)",LIB,109.09,102.49,106.94,129.21,117.34,180.39,130.85,155.11,117.96,183.98,172.95,170.44,163.35,144.29,163.092
"Tinymembench - Standard Memset (MB/s)",HIB,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,11204.8
"PostgreSQL pgbench - Scaling: Buffer Test - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write (TPS)",HIB,6381.04,6492.55,6451.02,3803.51,4439.83,1902.32,4053.29,5644.92,6588.56,4915.88,5042.30,5995.17,6473.45,335.80,2.145960