AMD EPYC 4004 Benchmarks: Outperforming Intel Xeon E-2400 With Performance, Efficiency & Value
First up is looking at the code compilation performance for the tested processors.
While not as fast as the EPYC 8004/9004 series with the much higher core counts, the EPYC 45x4 class processors with 16 cores and boost speeds above 5GHz can still make for quick build times whether using these new processors for a development workstation, CI/CD server, or other low-cost build environment. The EPYC 4654P and 4584PX could both compile the default Linux x86_64 kernel in less than one minute. As expected given only 8 cores, the flagship Xeon E-2488 failed to compete with the EPYC 4004 processors. The Xeon E-2488 was coming even behind the 8-core EPYC 4344P/4364P processors.
How could the Xeon E-2488 perform so poorly against the 8-core EPYCs? When looking at the peak CPU frequency achieved during the benchmark runs, on average the Xeon E-2488 was hitting around a 4.39GHz peak frequency on any of its cores while the EPYC CPUs were in the 4.7~5.1GHz average for their peak frequency during this benchmark run.
Not only could the 8 core EPYC processors outperform the Xeon E-2488, but they were doing so at less power! The E-2488 had a 95 Watt average while the EPYC 4344P had a 80 Watt average with a 90 Watt peak. The Xeon E-2488 embarrassingly had a 194 Watt peak power consumption, nearly matching that of the 16-core EPYC 4564P. The EPYC 4584PX was looking particularly attractive for great power efficiency and build speeds.
The overall AC (wall) power consumption was similar relative to the CPU power consumption... While building the Linux kernel the Xeon E-2488 system power was at 147 Watts with a peak of 270 Watts. The EPYC 4584PX had a 168 Watt average power consumption and 203 Watt peak while delivering much better performance.
Not only was the EPYC 4004 series delivering better raw performance and power efficiency but it had a trifecta in the code compilation workloads of also delivering much greater performance per dollar based on all of the CPU list prices.
The outcome was similar in other code compilation workloads like compiling the Godot game engine.
When compiling Node.js, the Xeon E-2488 was competing with AMD's EPYC 4244P 6-core processor: a $606 Intel processor battling it out with AMD's $229 processor.
Across all of the code compilation workloads tested, the AMD EPYC 4004 results were consistent and in great shape relative to Intel's top-end Xeon E series processor.