NVIDIA GH200 Grace CPU vs. AMD EPYC 9005 Turin CPU Performance
With the Coremark synthetic benchmark the GH200 Grace CPU was well behind the tested EPYC Turin CPUs for raw performance but did deliver superior CPU performance-per-Watt.
And a look at the performance per core/thread for each of these CPUs based on the raw performance and the respective core/thread counts with this popular CPU benchmark
For code compilation with the large Node.js codebase, the EPYC Turin processors commanded a lead with their higher core counts or even the lower core count but higher frequency EPYC 9575F. But making the Grace CPU compilation results more intriguing was the lower CPU power consumption of the GH200 compared to the EPYC 9005 CPUs. Though the EPYC 9755 128-core and EPYC 9655 96-core processors were still able to complete the Node.js build with lower energy use compared to the GH200 72-core Grace CPU.
The Grace CPU was slightly behind the Gem5 compilation results but did lead in having lower energy consumption per compilation run than the EPYC Turin CPUs at around 20.4k Joules per build compared to ~23k Joules with the EPYC 9655.