On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 6:29 PM, Christopher Samuel <[email protected]> wrote:
> I thought it interesting that the only performance info in that article > for Epyc were SpecINT and (the only mention for SpecFP was for Radeon). > As did I, but a little digging shows a STREAM benchmark (on AMD's page) showing +25% performance of a single-socket Epyc vs. a dual-socket E5-2690 v4 Broadwell system[1], and roughly 60% better specfp_rate2006 numbers when comparing socket-to-socket[2]. When I read stuff like this, I feel a little bit like Charlie Brown going to kick the football, and *hoping* it's not going to get whisked away by Lucy... but right now, this looks pretty impressive, especially given the memory bandwidth issues on Xeons on some codes. [1] http://www.amd.com/system/files/2017-06/AMD-EPYC-SoC-Delivers-Exceptional-Results.pdf [2] http://www.amd.com/system/files/2017-06/AMD-EPYC-SoC-Sets-4-World-Records.pdf Since those are both AMD links, and not independent, take a grain of salt with them, but I harbor some optimism, and would love to get my hands on one. We'll see. Cheers, - Brian
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