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Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs

Executive summary

Introduction

Dell PowerEdge servers are now available with AMD’s second-generation EPYC 7002 Processor family. This new CPU

family features up to 64 cores, 256 MB of last level caching and (8) 3200 MT/s DDR4 memory channels.

In order to show customers, the performance uplifts possible from the new PowerEdge products, Dell’s Solutions

Performance Analysis team performed a series of benchmarks and compared the results to those previously obtained

from both the AMD’s previous generation EPYC 7001 family as well as to contemporary Intel Xeon Scalable Processor

families.

Based on these results, PowerEdge servers with new EPYC 7002 family processors delivered 2x the performance of both

AMD’s previous EPYC 7001 family and Intel’s contemporary Xeon-SP family processors.

Key findings

Performance with EPYC 7002

• Double the integer workload compute throughput per socket of any previous PowerEdge model according to the

industry standard SPECcpu2017 RATE metric.

• 81% higher floating-point workload compute throughput per socket than any previous PowerEdge model

according to the industry standard SPECcpu2017 RATE metric.

• 3x the floating-point operations per second of the preceding EPYC 7001 family as well as 15% more than even

the AVX512 capable Xeon-SP families according to LINPACK.

• 25% more sustained system memory bandwidth than the previous best EPYC 7001 configuration according to the

STREAM benchmark.

• 93% more Java operations per second than any previous 2-socket PowerEdge model according to the

SPECjbb2015 business transaction metric.

• Another SAP-SD two-tier business transaction benchmark world record with its 76% higher score than Dell’s

previous industry-leading result based upon Xeon Platinum 8280 CPUs.

Comparing the published SPECcpu2017 integer rate scores for the 2 x 7742 CPU configuration to the 2 x 8280, 2 x

7601 and 2 x 8180 ones (667 vs 342 vs 301 vs 296 respectively). See those publication hyperlinks in the following section