AMD EPYC 9554 & EPYC 9654 Benchmarks - Outstanding Performance For Linux HPC/Servers

For CPU-based render farms, AMD EPYC Genoa with up to 96 cores and the design improvements over Zen 3 were paying off with significant render time improvements. With the well known BMW scene, the flagship EPYC 9654 2P processor could render it in a mere 8 seconds!

AMD EPYC Genoa was performing very well with Blender 3.3 with big generational improvements and much better performance than what can be achieved with Xeon Scalable Ice Lake and its much lower core counts.

The power determinism mode can help out with the Blender render times even more, if you don't mind the increased power/thermal impact.

On a performance-per-dollar basis the new Genoa CPUs are very comparable price-wise to Milan on a CPU basis at least.

Intel's Embree ray-tracing kernels can significantly benefit from Genoa with AVX-512. The EPYC 9654 2P in power determinism mode was twice the speed of the AMD EPYC 7773X 2P processor.

While these Genoa processors tested have higher power consumption than Milan, on a performance-per-Watt basis they were doing much better than the other Intel/AMD CPUs.