AMD EPYC 9755 / 9575F / 9965 Benchmarks Show Dominating Performance
First up was the Linux kernel x86_64 build with all possible modules included... In dual socket configurations, the EPYC 9965 was just behind the Xeon 6980P with either DDR5-6400 or MRDIMM 8800 memory. That's for 128-core head-to-head but when going to the EPYC 9575F high frequency 64-core part or the EPYC 9755 192-core dense processors, they outpaced the flagship Granite Rapids processors. In a single socket configuration, the Xeon 6980P was comparatively stronger than single EPYC Turin processors. I've seen that in other select workloads as well with either the Xeon 6980P or the Birch Stream server platform not scaling as greatly from 1P to 2P compared to prior Intel Xeon CPUs or AMD EPYC CPUs.
When looking at the CPU power consumption across the single processor tests, the EPYC 9755 had similar power use to the Xeon 6980P while the EPYC 9575F and EPYC 9965 were consuming significantly less power than that 128-core Xeon 6 P-core processor.
When compiling the Godot game engine codebase that doesn't scale as well in build performance, all of the tested EPYC 9005 processors were faster than the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids.
With the large Node.js codebase, the EPYC Turin processors were delivering the fastest build times with ease. Here even the single EPYC 9575F / 9965 / 9755 processors were faster than the dual Xeon 6980P server with MRDIMM memory.
AMD EPYC 9005 series should serve as great build boxes, especially for use as a CI/CD farm where you may be compiling many codebases or code revisions in parallel.
The EPYC 9755 and 9575F 1P power consumption was similar to the Xeon 6980P on average but with lower peak CPU power consumption. The EPYC 9965 had a nice efficiency lead over the Xeon 6980P.
On a performance-per-dollar basis, the tested EPYC Turin processors all deliver much better value than the Xeon 6980P when comparing list prices.
AMD EPYC Turin is coming in strong with great generational uplift and easily surpassing the Xeon 6980P performance in many areas.
Even on a performance-per-Watt basis there is a nice leap in power efficiency even with the higher default TDPs.
For ChaCha20-Poly1305, a single EPYC 9965 outpaced two Xeon 6980P processors.