Intel Xeon 6980P vs. AMD EPYC 9755 128-Core Showdown With The Latest Linux Software For EOY2025
Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 17 December 2025 at 11:00 AM EST. Page 7 of 9. 11 Comments.
Even with the same storage, same memory capacity, and same software stack, the AMD EPYC 9755 server had some big advantages with PostgreSQL 18 compared to Granite Rapids.
The 5th Gen AMD EPYC server was also performing much better than Intel Xeon 6 for the ClickHouse database server.
More database wins for AMD when it came to RocksDB.
Surprisingly the AMD EPYC 9755 server was delivering some big wins for the in-memory Pogocache compared to Granite Rapids with MRDIMMs.
The AMD EPYC 9005 series continues to prove itself remarkably well rounded for Linux server workloads.