AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
by Johan De Gelas on August 7, 2019 7:00 PM ESTJava Performance
Even though our testing is not the ideal case for AMD (you would probably choose 8 or even 16 back-ends), the EPYC edges out the Xeon 8176. Using 8 JVMs increases the gap from 1% to 4-5%.
The Critical-jOPS metric is a throughput metric under response time constraint.
With this number of threads active, you can get much higher Critical-jOps by significantly increasing the RAM per JVM. However, we did not want that as this would mean we can not compare with systems that can only accommodate 128 GB of RAM. Notice how badly the Intel system needs huge pages.
The benchmark data of Intel and AMD can be found below.
According to AMD, the EPYC 7742 can be up to 66% faster. However note that these kind of high scores for critical-jOPS are sometimes configured with 1 TB of RAM and more.
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Cooe - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
Hexus got around ≈31,000 iirc.Ryan Smith - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
Funny enough, from what I've heard from other people who have tested it, it actually doesn't run all that well with dual EPYCs. Too many cores that are too fast, to the point that initialization times are starting to hold back performance.Ian Cutress - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
I got a message from the Cinebench team at one point. They don't spawn/kill/respawn for each little segment: it's kept alive and just fed more data. CB20 is also designed to scale, given that CB15 freaked out above 32 cores or soprisonerX - Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - link
Where is our resident Intel shill? Selling his INTC stock in a panic perhaps?abufrejoval - Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - link
comiserating with the ARM server guysLord of the Bored - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
Not gonna lie, I scrolled straight to the comments to see the Intel fanboy spinning this. Instead I got a wall of... Call of Duty references, I think?PeachNCream - Friday, August 9, 2019 - link
The fact that AMD released a product that breaks even HStewart's ability to defend shill for Intel should say something pretty epic about Epyc.Lord of the Bored - Saturday, August 10, 2019 - link
You ain't lyin' there. Seems the name was chosen well.Korguz - Saturday, August 10, 2019 - link
i bet, he would STILL but the intel cpu too. even though it costs more, slower and probably uses more power.Samus - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link
I was just thinking if Trump doesn't crash the market with his shenanigans then AMD could be an incredibly good buy in the next few months. The first time they've been a good buy in awhile.Although a lot of my daytrader friends have always claimed AMD was a good short-term buy, which is partially true, but if they can keep momentum and Intel doesn't try strongarming them out of OEMs (you know, like they used too...)