AMD's Epic Performance Gains From The Original EPYC 7601 To EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965
For some of the HPC benchmarks the gains made from EPYC Naples to Turin were even larger than I had imagined prior to conducting these tests for putting hard numbers at how the AMD EPYC performance has evolved from Zen 1 to Zen 5.
Those wanting to look through more than 100 benchmarks in total for this AMD EPYC 7601 Naples vs. AMD EPYC 9755 / 9965 Turin comparison can see this result page for all my raw performance benchmarks and CPU power metrics in full. Again, not fundamentally surprising overall but nice to quantify the difference made since 2017 for AMD EPYC server performance on Linux.
When taking a look at the geometric mean of all the benchmarks, the AMD EPYC 9755 was at 7.5x the performance of the EPYC 7601 and the EPYC 9965 192-core Zen 5C dense core processor was at 8x the performance. Not all of the workloads tested scale ideally to 256~384 threads but in any event these are some significant gains found for AMD Linux server performance since the original EPYC introduction. For HPC, AI, and other workloads involving AVX-512 and other modern features, there were some very wild improvements at over 30x going from EPYC Naples to Turin.
Even with the higher TDP of these flagship Turin processors, the performance gains observed still reflect great strides in power efficiency too with these latest AMD Zen 5 server processors.
In case you missed it, there is also the arguably more interesting data for how AMD EPYC Grado can outperform EPYC Naples for those wishing to upgrade to a smaller and more budget minded server while enjoying excellent performance and power efficiency.
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