AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
by Johan De Gelas on August 7, 2019 7:00 PM ESTLegacy: 7-zip
While standalone compression and decompression are not real world benchmarks (at least as far as servers go), servers have to perform these tasks as part of a larger role (e.g. database compression, website optimization). With that said, we suggest you take these benchmarks with a large grain of salt, as they are not really important in grand scheme of things. We still use 7zip 9.2, so you can compare with much older results.
Compression on modern cores relies almost solely on cache, memory latency, and TLB efficiency. This is definitely not the ideal situation for AMD's EPYC CPU, but the EPYC 7742 scales very well, offering 77% higher performance than Naples. That is better than expected scaling.
Decompression relies on less common integer instructions (shift, multiply). AMD's Zen2 core handles these instructions even better because doubling the cores results in no less than 127% (!) better performance.
Even though this benchmark is not that important, it is nevertheless impressive how AMD engineering made this graph look. Never have we seen AMD dominating benchmarks by such a wide margin.
Before people accuse us of choosing a benchmark that shows AMD in the best light, consider this benchmark as one of our synthetic tests more than anything else, designed to showcase core execution port potential. It is not really indicative of any real-world performance, but acts as a synthetic for those that have requested this data.
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steepedrostee - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
if i had to guess who is more full of crapola, i would think youSmell This - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
Pooper Lake?
Cascade is obviously, The Mistake By The Lake
Chipzillah will certainly strike back but it reminds me of the old 'virgin' joke. "My first wife was an OB/GYN, and all she wanted to do was look at it. My second wife was a psychiatrist, and all she wanted to do was talk about it, and ...
My third wife was an Intel Fan Girl, and all she could say was, "Wait until next year!"
HA!
RSAUser - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
Do we finally have a contender to run Crysis on max?Tunnah - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
I'd normally just ignore this but this really needs proofreading, There's multiple mistakes on every page, becomes a bit difficult to follow.cerealspiller - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
Well, 50% of the sentences in your post have a grammatical error, so I will just try to ignore it.GreenReaper - Friday, August 9, 2019 - link
He's a reader, not a writer. ;-)Oliseo - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
Pot. Meet Kettle.steepedrostee - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
wow amd !umano - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
Intel people will welcome "Rome" like gladiators "Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant"I am really happy for Amd and I really hope their sells will be a lot more than they could ever dream.
Because they become more than competitive with the most rightful strategy, just deliver an awesome product. The fact they think that they will just double their shares shows how sick the market(s) are. The epyc is faster, greener and way way cheaper.
29a - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
"AMD does not blow fuses on cheaper SKUs to create artificial 'value' for buying more expensive SKUs"I like this guy, more reviews from him. He's not afraid to bite the hand that feeds him.