AMD EPYC 4124P Benchmarks: A Quad-Core $149 Server CPU
The positioning of the EPYC 4124P comes in right where one would expect given the four cores relative to the rest of the EPYC 4004 line-up. In the Xeon E-2400 line-up there is the Xeon E-2414 4-cores / 4-thread processor and Xeon E-2434 processor with 4-cores / 8-threads but unfortunately didn't have access to them for this comparison. For the Xeon E3-1280 v5 for representing the all too common 4-core Xeons back during the Skylake days, the EPYC 4124P was more than twice as fast at code compilation.
The EPYC 4124P while compiling the Linux kernel was pulling around 71 Watts that is higher than the 45 Watts with the Xeon E3-1280 v5 but given the strong performance is still better than that Skylake Xeon for performance-per-Watt.
For those doing frequent code compilation the higher-end EPYC 4004 series processors are obviously much more beneficial if not able to afford EPYC 8004/9004 class processors.
It is great though that the EPYC 4124P does still deliver the same platform features and Zen 4 capabilities as the rest of the EPYC 4004 line-up, compared to the Xeon E-2414 that goes without Hyper Threading.
The EPYC 4124P is fast enough for powering a SOHO web server, LAN server for web applications, and other similar tasks.