Intel Xeon vs AMD EPYC

Gennady Trafimenkov
Sep 9, 2018 · 1 min read

I was curious of how performant is the new AMD EPYC processor and did two practical tests:

  • building of the linux kernel as a test of multi-core performance
  • bzipping of a 10Gb file as a test of single-core performance.

Test systems:

The both systems are equipped with SSD drives.

Here are the results:

The two systems are very close in terms of multi-core and single-core performance.

AMD EPYC 7401P costs almost the same as a single Intel Xeon E5–2650, but performs as two Intel processors.

As we can see, AMD EPYC is the clean winner in terms of performance per CPU cost.


Performance tests of other processors can be found at https://github.com/gtrafimenkov/cloud-servers-performance. More of my blog posts can be found at https://gtrafimenkov.github.io/

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