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