Opteron vs. EPYC Benchmarks & Performance-Per-Watt: How AMD Server Performance Evolved Over 10 Years
Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 18 September 2017 at 10:00 AM EDT. Page 4 of 7. 41 Comments.
Going from a single Opteron 2384 to EPYC 7601 is around a 10.5x increase in performance, not bad for over the course of the decade and most of the generational improvement has come with these new Zen CPUs.
The performance-per-Watt improvement is also very significant.
Even in the less threaded workloads, the EPYC 7601 represents much greater performance over the older Opterons.
Here's a look at the single-threaded performance difference between these AMD server CPUs by running the LAME MP3 encoder.