AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPU PowerEdge Server Performance This white paper details the performance improvements of Dell EMC™ PowerEdge™ servers with the 2nd Gen EPYC CPU Family.
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Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs Contents Executive summary ................................................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 Key findings ...........................................................................
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs Tables Table 1 Benchmark configurations ............................................................................................................. 13 Figures Figure 1 Performance improvement running SPECint_rate_base2017 ...................................................... 6 Figure 2 Performance improvement running SPECfp_rate_base2017 .......................................................
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs Executive summary Introduction Dell PowerEdge servers are now available with AMD’s second-generation EPYC 7002 Processor family. This new CPU family features up to 64 cores, 256 MB of last level caching and (8) 3200 MT/s DDR4 memory channels.
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs Arithmetic performance SPEC CPU2017 integer tests The widely referenced SPEC CPU2017 benchmark is described on SPEC.org as: The SPEC CPU® 2017 benchmark package contains SPEC's next-generation, industry-standardized, CPU intensive suites for measuring and comparing compute intensive performance, stressing a system's processor, memory subsystem and code compiler.
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs SPEC CPU2017 floating-point tests The throughput or rate of a computer system carrying out floating-point arithmetic is important to those working today’s biggest problems in science and engineering. Figure 2 shows that a 2P EPYC 7742 configuration demonstrated a 1.8x improvement3 in floating-point application throughput over the best previous 2P PowerEdge model according to the industry standard SPECcpu2017 RATE metric.
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs High Performance Computing (HPC) performance tests The widely-available LINPACK4 benchmark is the standard for illustrating a system’s “heavy math” floating-point processing power needed for simulating natural phenomena, analyzing structures and machine learning. With the addition of AVX2 vector operation support and a doubling of physical cores; EPYC 7742 provides 3.
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs Memory subsystem performance STREAM-triad As core counts and IPC (instructions per cycle) grows with each new CPU family, it is essential that the accompanying main memory subsystem provide correspondingly higher aggregate data transfer rates else it will constrain the solution’s potential compute throughput. This is especially true for Cloud and in-memory database applications.
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs Business Transaction Performance SPECjbb2015 According to the SPEC website: This benchmark models a Java-based business application for a worldwide supermarket company with an IT infrastructure that handles a mix of point-of-sale requests, online purchases and data-mining operations. It exercises the latest data formats (XML), communication using compression and messaging with security in a virtualized cloud computing environment.
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs SAP-SD 2-Tier, Linux / Sybase The (Sales and Distribution) benchmark is described on the SAP web site as: The Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark covers a sell-from-stock scenario, which includes the creation of a customer order with five-line items and the corresponding delivery with subsequent goods movement and invoicing.
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs Summary Dell’s PowerEdge servers based upon the AMD EPYC 7002 CPU family provides double the compute throughput per socket of any previous model on all scientific analysis and business transaction workloads.
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs Appendix A — Test configurations Table 1 Benchmark configurations Processor quantity EPYC 7002 family processor DIMM quantity DIMM specifications SPECint_rate_base2017 2 EPYC 7742 16 32 GB dual rank 3200 MT/s registered DIMMs SPECfp_rate_base2017 2 EPYC 7742 16 32 GB dual rank 3200 MT/s registered DIMMs High Performance LINPACK 2 EPYC 7742 16 32 GB dual rank 3200 MT/s registered DIMMs STREAM 2 EPYC 7742 16 32 GB dua
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs Appendix B —PowerEdge Server Floating-Point Operations per Second Figure 8 Linpack results for the EPYC 7002 family in a 1-socket platform Figure 9 Linpack results for the EPYC 7002 family in a 2-socket platform 14
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs Appendix C — PowerEdge Server Total Memory Bandwidth Figure 10 Stream results for the EPYC 7002 family in a 1-socket platform Figure 11 Stream results across 2-socket platform DIMM populations 15
Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs Appendix D- SPECcpu2017 RATE results across the EPYC 7002 CPU family9 Figure 12 Integer Workload Suite Figure 13 Floating-Point Workload Suite 9 SPEC and SPECcpu are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The performance described is based upon published results as of Dec 3, 2019. https://spec.
