Intel Xeon 6780E / Xeon 6766E 144-Core Performance Benchmarks
The processors tested for today's launch day review were:
- EPYC 8534P
- EPYC 8534PN
- EPYC 9654
- EPYC 9654 2P
- EPYC 9684X
- EPYC 9684X 2P
- EPYC 9754
- EPYC 9754 2P
- Xeon 6766E
- Xeon 6766E 2P
- Xeon 6780E
- Xeon 6780E 2P
- Xeon Max 9468
- Xeon Max 9468 2P
- Xeon Max 9480
- Xeon Max 9480 2P
- Xeon Platinum 8380
- Xeon Platinum 8380 2P
- Xeon Platinum 8490H
- Xeon Platinum 8490H 2P
- Xeon Platinum 8592+
- Xeon Platinum 8592+ 2P
All processors were freshly re-tested on Ubuntu 24.04 while using the Linux 6.9 Git kernel at the time and the default GCC 13 compiler from a KIOXIA KCD8XPUG1T92 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD. The performance governor was in use on all of the CPUs tested. Each CPU was tested with memory at the maximum rated number of memory channels and frequency. The Xeon Max CPUs were tested in the default caching mode due to some workloads not having enough available memory if running in HBM-only mode.
On the Intel side the testing goes as far back as Xeon Platinum 8380 Ice Lake. I had wanted to test Xeon Platinum 8280 Cascade Lake again but in my Cascade Lake server the newer Kioxia NVMe SSD wasn't being detected and then ran into a last minute time bottleneck to test using other storage. Aside from that it's a rather comprehensive look at the Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors of recent years.
👁 Intel Xeon 6 dual socket server
Due to using reference servers for all of the platforms tested, Intel (and AMD) do not encourage reporting AC system power consumption (wall power) due to the reference servers being un-optimized compared to official OEM/ODM servers post-launch. Thus in this article is looking at the raw performance and then the CPU package power consumption using the RAPL/PowerCap sysfs interfaces but not the overall AC wall power consumption.
Let's see how the Xeon 6780E and Xeon 6766E are competing against the AMD EPYC competition and prior generation Intel Xeon processors. As noted earlier, those interested in seeing Intel Xeon 6766E/6780E against the aging Ampere Altra, those numbers will come in a separate article soon.