The CPU Performance Of The NVIDIA GB10 With The Dell Pro Max vs. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo"
With the PETSc library used by a variety of scientific applications/toolkits, the Dell Pro Max GB10 with its 20 Arm cores came out about 12% faster than the 16-core AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395. Interestingly the total AC system power consumption on average for both of these tested systems was quite similar at around 82 Watts but the Framework Desktop had peaked to 138 Watts compared to 122 Watts with the Dell Pro Max GB10 during this CPU benchmark. So on a performance-per-Watt basis, the GB10 was ahead of Strix Halo for this widely-used scientific library.
When looking at strictly the CPU performance of the Blender 3D modeling software of the package shipped in the Ubuntu 24.04 archive, the Strix Halo platform was much faster than the GB10. By a lot. Presumably Blender is missing some important AArch64 optimizations compared to Blender having long been well-tuned on x86_64. Though keep in mind the intent of this article is strictly on the CPU performance and if incorporating the GPUs of each SoC into these Blender render tests, the GB10 would likely be coming out ahead of Strix Halo.
With EEMBC's CoreMark benchmark, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 was driving 1.67x the performance of the GB10's twenty Arm cores. But the Framework Desktop was consuming much more power and thus in the end the performance-per-Watt was similar between these mini PCs.
Meanwhile with the open-source C-Ray CPU-based ray-tracer, the GB10's CPU performance was well ahead of AMD's Strix Halo in both raw performance and power efficiency.