The Linux Performance For AMD Rome vs. Intel Cascade Lake One Year After Launch

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 16 July 2020 at 02:30 PM EDT. Page 9 of 10. 6 Comments.
AMD EPYC 7742 + Xeon Platinum 8280 In 2020
AMD EPYC 7742 + Xeon Platinum 8280 In 2020
AMD EPYC 7742 + Xeon Platinum 8280 In 2020
AMD EPYC 7742 + Xeon Platinum 8280 In 2020
AMD EPYC 7742 + Xeon Platinum 8280 In 2020
AMD EPYC 7742 + Xeon Platinum 8280 In 2020

For the PlaidML machine learning benchmarks there tended to be better performance on the newest software stack but by rather slim margins.

AMD EPYC 7742 + Xeon Platinum 8280 In 2020

The context switching performance on Cascade Lake took a small hit over the past year due to the continued security vulnerabilities coming to light and mitigations.

AMD EPYC 7742 + Xeon Platinum 8280 In 2020
AMD EPYC 7742 + Xeon Platinum 8280 In 2020
AMD EPYC 7742 + Xeon Platinum 8280 In 2020
AMD EPYC 7742 + Xeon Platinum 8280 In 2020
AMD EPYC 7742 + Xeon Platinum 8280 In 2020

Cassandra and the RocksDB database projects were both seeing better performance on the newest Linux software stack.


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