A Look At The Open-Source Talos II POWER9 Performance Against x86_64 Server CPUs

7-Zip is another workload that always scales well including with SMT systems and here the 176 threads of the Talos II paid off well for this compression test.

With the multi-threaded Stockfish chess benchmark using pthreads, the dual socket POWER9 system came up short of the dual EPYC 7601 Dell PowerEdge server.

A look at the compilation performance between the tested systems.