AMD EPYC 4124P Benchmarks: A Quad-Core $149 Server CPU
Those wanting to look through more than 350 benchmarks of the AMD EPYC 4124P and the rest of the AMD EPYC 4004 line-up can find all of the new benchmark data via this result page.
The $149 EPYC 4124P 4-core processor was overall right in line with expectations compared to the rest of the EPYC 4004 family. With the geo mean of the 350+ benchmarks used, the EPYC 4124P did manage to deliver around 70% the performance of the Xeon E-2488 overall while costing just 25% the list price for that 8-core / 16-thread Raptor Lake processor. For the geo mean performance the EPYC 4124P was running at 2.24x the performance of the Xeon E3-1280 v5 for the 4-core Xeons that were very common back during the Skylake period.
Across the span of all the benchmarks carried out, the EPYC 4124P had a package power consumption of 58 Watts on average with a recorded peak of 90 Watts.
The EPYC 4124P within the Supermicro AS-3015A-I had an average wall power of 99 Watts and a recorded peak of 139 Watts.
Thanks to AMD for providing the EPYC 4004 series processors for this benchmarking. You can see my earlier AMD EPYC 4004 series review for more commentary on these entry-level server processors overall and their ability to blow the Intel Xeon E-2400 line-up out of the water. Even the EPYC 4124P 4-core processor poses strong competition thanks to having AVX-512 and SMT and not otherwise being a restricted SKU. The AMD EPYC 4004 series is very versatile for budget web servers, small office web applications, and other lighter/SOHO-type workloads where not needing to go up the stack to the EPYC 8004/9004 series with higher core counts, more memory channels, and more PCIe lanes.
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