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

Right off the bat with firing up some HPC benchmarks, the AMD EPYC Genoa processors show their prowess for performance. The AMD EPYC 9654 2P had a 40% lower run-time for the GPAW DFT code compared to the EPYC 7773X Milan-X and was approaching the point of being nearly twice as quick as the EPYC 7763 processors. When switching over to power determinism mode, there was more performance squeezed out of the EPYC Genoa processors. It's just not the 96 cores versus 64 cores leading to the big uplift with Genoa as the 64-core EPYC 9554 1P2P performance was also stellar -- the EPYC 9554 matched the EPYC 7763 2P performance for GPAW!

But, of course, these new EPYC 9554/9654 processors do consume more power than their predecessors as is to be expected.

On a performance-per-dollar basis, the new EPYC 9554/9654 processors perform quite well against the prior generation parts. Of course, that is only the CPU pricing but there is also the DDR5 memory pricing and the platform pricing to consider, but wasn't possible to come up with accurate assessments there prior to launch in seeing how Genoa motherboard pricing, etc, will compare to Milan(X).

The AMD EPYC 9654 and EPYC 9554 performance was equally stellar with the GROMACS molecular dynamics benchmark. The EPYC 9654 2P performance was 1.66x the speed of the EPYC 7773X 2P and the EPYC 9654 1P configuration nearly matched the EPYC 7773X 2P performance... There is substantial uplift thanks to the additional cores, DDR5 system memory, 12 memory channels, AVX-512, and other Zen 4 architectural improvements. And if running in power determinism mode, even higher performance.

While the EPYC Genoa power consumption was higher than with EPYC Milan(X) and Xeon Ice Lake, on a performance-per-Watt basis for GROMACS the efficiency is found with Genoa. Intel's flagship Xeon Platinum 8380 processors were simply uncompetitive with Genoa and had a hard enough time running against Milan(X) in most benchmarks, but at least Xeon Sapphire Rapids will hopefully arrive next quarter.

The performance-per-dollar metrics based on the CPU pricing puts Genoa in good shape.

The tested EPYC Genoa processors performed incredible with NAMD and delivered terrific results generationally from Milan/Milan-X and widened the lead over the current-generation Xeon Ice Lake processors.