NVIDIA GH200 72 Core Grace CPU Performance vs. AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstations

Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 20 February 2024 at 10:55 AM EST. Page 3 of 5. 29 Comments.
LULESH benchmark with settings of . HP Z6 G5 A - Threadripper PRO 7995WX was the fastest.
LULESH benchmark with settings of . HP Z6 G5 A - Threadripper PRO 7995WX was the fastest.

The LULESH hydrodynamics software benefits a lot from large caches and memory bandwidth. With LULESH the 72-core GH200 was nearly matching the 96-core Threadripper PRO 7995WX. But on a performance-per-dollar basis the Threadripper workstations came out ahead.

Xmrig benchmark with settings of Variant: Wownero, Hash Count: 1M. HP Z6 G5 A - Threadripper PRO 7995WX was the fastest.
John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: WPA PSK. HP Z6 G5 A - Threadripper PRO 7995WX was the fastest.

Some workloads in 2024 still aren't as well optimized for AArch64 as they are for x86_64.

GraphicsMagick benchmark with settings of Operation: Sharpen. GPTshop.ai - NVIDIA GH200 was the fastest.
GraphicsMagick benchmark with settings of Operation: Enhanced. GPTshop.ai - NVIDIA GH200 was the fastest.

The GH200 workstation delivered some surprising first place finishes for the OpenMP-threaded GraphicsMagick image manipulation software.

ACES DGEMM benchmark with settings of Sustained Floating-Point Rate. HP Z6 G5 A - Threadripper PRO 7995WX was the fastest.

ACES DGEMM tends to crave memory bandwidth while in this case the Threadripper systems were coming out ahead.


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