EPYC vs. Xeon Gold @ Phoronix

Phoronix has a bunch of new benchmarks up today comparing a single EPYC 7601 with 32 cores / 64 threads to dual Xeon Gold 6138 CPUs with 20 cores / 40 threads each running on the Linux 4.15 kernel.

EPYC vs. Xeon Gold In Nearly 200 Tests With Ubuntu On Linux 4.15

The Xeon systems leads most benchmarks on absolute terms due to its higher core count but the AMD EPYC leads on memory benchmarks due to having more memory channels and leads on many more tests on a per core basis.

Based on these benchmarks the AMD EPYC is very competitive with Intel’s latest CPUs on bare metal and as our own Cloud Hosting Benchmarks show AMD EPYC does even better compared to cloud hosting offerings.