Last month, Intel announced the Xeon 6 “Granite Rapids” processor with up to 128 P cores, MRDIMM support, and other improvements, a major performance and power efficiency improvement for server processors. The Xeon 6900P series has shown that it can work with AMD EPYC 9004 Genoa/Bergamo processors in many areas, but Genoa has been around since November 2022… Today’s AMD 5th Gen EPYC “Turin” With the launch comes Zen 5. Deliver superior performance and power efficiency to your servers. The performance of new top-end AMD EPYC Turin processors eliminates contention for most workloads, delivering a generational leap in performance and power efficiency. Here we present the first 5th Gen AMD EPYC Turin benchmark that looks at EPYC 9575F, EPYC 9755, and EPYC 9965 processors across a number of workloads and tests them in both single-socket and dual-socket configurations.
I’ve been very enthusiastic about 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors since I started testing Zen 5 with Ryzen AI 300 series and Ryzen 9000 desktop processors earlier this year. As shown in numerous articles over the past few months, Zen 5 delivers significant generational improvements and advanced power efficiency. Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors tackle HPC and technical workloads very well and offer significant advantages over the Ryzen 7000 series. The benefits of Zen 5 with HPC/Technical Computing here far outweigh the benefits of the Ryzen 9000 series for gamers. All my expectations for EPYC Torino came true over the past few weeks when I tested these Zen 5 server processors.
While the Xeon 6 Granite Rapids with the Xeon 6980P benchmark was more powerful than initially expected, the AMD EPYC 9005 series largely negates the advantages seen over the past few weeks. AMD EPYC 9005 series with full 512-bit data path for AVX-512, DDR5-6000 memory support (or DDR5-6400 in some configurations), up to 192 per socket with high-density cores or 128 classic cores With core and other Zen 5 improvements, Torino performed very well. Benchmarked around the clock in preparation for launch day, the AMD EPYC 9005 processor delivers significant performance and power efficiency improvements across generations, competing with and significantly outperforming the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids. I found out that I am prepared. If you haven’t already done so, please see our 5th Generation AMD EPYC Overview article for more background information on the AMD EPYC 9005 series.
The tests in this release date review are based on all the data we’ve been running over the past few months, retesting previous generation Intel and AMD CPUs on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in preparation for the Xeon 6 Granite Rapids test. Put together in time for this 5th generation EPYC release date, it includes the following benchmarks:
– Xeon Platinum 8490H
– Xeon Platinum 8490H 2P
-Xeon Max 9480
-Xeon Max 9480 2P
– Xeon Platinum 8592+
– Xeon Platinum 8592+ 2P
-Xeon 6766E
-Xeon 6766E 2P
-Xeon 6780E
-Xeon 6780E 2P
– Xeon 6980P @ DDR5-6400
– Xeon 6980P @ MRDIMM-8800
– Xeon 6980P 2P @ DDR5-6400
– Xeon 6980P 2P @ MRDIMM-8800
– EPYC 9654
– EPYC 9654 2P
– EPYC 9754
– EPYC 9754 2P
-EPYC 9684X
– EPYC 9684X 2P
– EPYC 9575F
– EPYC 9575F 2P
– EPYC 9755
– EPYC 9755 2P
– EPYC 9965
– EPYC 9965 2P
Separately, for those interested in AMD EPYC Turin Dense against ARM CPUs with Ampere Computing AmpereOne processors, we have a separate release date article about the exciting 192-core server CPU showdown between AMD EPYC 9965 and AmpereOne A192-32X I’m considering it.
AMD EPYC 9755 is a 128-core Torino Classic processor with 500-watt TDP, EPYC 9575F is a 400-watt high-frequency 64-core processor, and EPYC 9965 is a 192-core Torino high-density processor with 500-watt TDP. Default TDP in Watts. We would like to thank AMD for providing review samples of their EPYC Turin processors and the SP5 servers at Phoronix for providing launch day benchmarks.
The EPYC 9005 series reference servers are AMD’s “Volcano” platform, paired with DDR5-6000 memory. With a TDP rating of 500 watts, the Volcano uses a closed-loop liquid cooler within the 2U server, with the radiator shared between the two sockets. The AMD Volcano platform has performed well, allowing the 500 Watt TDP processor to continue to operate efficiently. We encountered DDR5 memory throttling issues in some long-running test cases such as WRF, but there is a known workaround for this reference server platform and we are currently retesting some of those tests.
AMD Volcano servers and EPYC 9005 series processors are running well on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The main caveat for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is that you need Linux 6.12 (or a one-line RAPL patch backport) if you’re interested in Zen 5 CPU Power Monitor reporting on these CPUs… It’s the same line that was talked about earlier on Granite Ridge and Strix Point Linux testing. It’s a shame that a simple patch wasn’t merged a few months ago. And when it comes to PCIe TPH and other SEV improvements, there are some Linux kernel patches that haven’t been merged yet. However, as mentioned earlier, all the core features of Zen 5 / EPYC 9005 are in place to provide a great experience when running modern Linux distributions.
Phoronix will be adding more Phoronix follow-up articles in the coming days that will cover AVX-512 on/off/256-bit performance, SMT on/off, and various other follow-up articles exploring the details of EPYC 9005. I am planning to do so. series performance.
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