Intel Sapphire Rapids Performance With Google Cloud Compute Engine C3

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 27 March 2023 at 12:00 PM EDT. Page 5 of 7. 1 Comment.
Timed FFmpeg Compilation benchmark with settings of Time To Compile. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation benchmark with settings of Build: defconfig. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.

Even looking at the 8 vCPU code compilation performance saw much quicker build times with the c3-highcpu-8 instance.

oneDNN benchmark with settings of Harness: IP Shapes 1D, Data Type: bf16bf16bf16, Engine: CPU. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.
oneDNN benchmark with settings of Harness: IP Shapes 3D, Data Type: bf16bf16bf16, Engine: CPU. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.
oneDNN benchmark with settings of Harness: Convolution Batch Shapes Auto, Data Type: bf16bf16bf16, Engine: CPU. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.
oneDNN benchmark with settings of Harness: Deconvolution Batch shapes_1d, Data Type: bf16bf16bf16, Engine: CPU. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.
oneDNN benchmark with settings of Harness: Recurrent Neural Network Training, Data Type: bf16bf16bf16, Engine: CPU. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.
oneDNN benchmark with settings of Harness: Recurrent Neural Network Inference, Data Type: bf16bf16bf16, Engine: CPU. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.
oneDNN benchmark with settings of Harness: Matrix Multiply Batch Shapes Transformer, Data Type: bf16bf16bf16, Engine: CPU. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.

Cascade Lake to Sapphire Rapids can mean a world of difference for some AI workloads such as those making use of Intel's oneDNN library.

OSPRay Studio benchmark with settings of Camera: 1, Resolution: 4K, Samples Per Pixel: 1, Renderer: Path Tracer. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.
OSPRay Studio benchmark with settings of Camera: 3, Resolution: 4K, Samples Per Pixel: 1, Renderer: Path Tracer. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.

Intel's OSPRay Studio software was also enjoying much quicker renders on the C3 series.


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