Intel Xeon 6780E / Xeon 6766E 144-Core Performance Benchmarks
Similarly, the Xeon 6700E processors were performing great and with leading power efficiency for the Speedb database.
While the Coremark processor benchmark doesn't directly align with the target workloads of the Xeon 6 E-core target markets, it's an interesting metric. Here the Xeon 6780E 2P delivered 47% higher performance than the Xeon Platinum 8592+ and on a performance-per-Watt basis was a remarkable 2.6x that of Emerald Rapids. The power efficiency of the Xeon Sierra Forest processors surpassed that of the AMD EPYC Zen 4 competition.
As Intel stated during the briefing, the new Xeon 6 E-core processors are not designed for some workloads like HPC but rather is the focus with the upcoming P-core Granite Rapids processors... But in being curious, I did run a few benchmarks. With NAMD for example the Sierra Forest processors were much slower than the Ice Lake / Sapphire Rapids / Emerald Rapids processors due to the lack of AVX-512 support. But it still managed to be an interesting story when looking at the performance-per-Watt. There's a big boost in performance per Watt with Sierra Forest compared to prior Intel Xeon CPUs while the AMD EPYC CPUs still lead here.