Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800
When compiling large codebases the dual socket Xeon 6980P is certainly worthwhile or if compiling multiple different codebases or revisions in parallel. But even when looking at the single socket performance of the Xeon 6980P, it's pretty great. A single Xeon 6980P matched the performance of the dual Xeon 6780E Sierra Forest E-core server processors as well as compiling the Linux kernel faster than a dual AMD EPYC 9684X server.
Looking at the single Xeon 6980P power metrics is also impressive for this all module configuration kernel build with the power savings compared to a dual Xeon 6780E or EPYC 2P server while having faster kernel build times.
In the case of the node.js codebase the EPYC Genoa(X) processors edged out with faster build times but the Xeon 6980P 128-core CPU did compile Node.js faster than the 128-core EPYC 9754 Bergamo server.
For those running older dual Xeon Ice Lake era or older servers could enjoy better performance and power by going for a single Xeon 6980P server for some nice consolidation.
A lone 128-core Xeon 6980P could deliver a nice upgrade path from generations old 1S/2S servers.
For those concerned about maximizing power efficiency, the Xeon 6 Sierra Forest processors were leading in workloads like RocksDB while the Xeon 6980P on a performance-per-Watt basis was comparable to the AMD EPYC Genoa(X) processors.