Wednesday, September 14th 2022
Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" with HBM2E Beaten by Older AMD EPYC "Milan-X" in Leaked Benchmarks
Intel's Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processor may have a tough time getting to market, as leaked benchmarks suggest that even its premium HPC models with on-package HBM2E memory are outperformed by AMD's older-generation "Zen 3" EPYC processors. The 64-core/128-thread EPYC "Milan-X" processor based on older "Zen 3" microarchitecture with 3D Vertical Cache (3DV cache) chiplets, allegedly outperforms 52-core/104-thread Xeon Platinum 8472C and 60-core/120-thread Xeon Platinum 8490H "Sapphire Rapids" engineering samples in CPU-Z Bench and V-ray tests that scale across cores. These benchmark scores were compared with those of the EPYC "Milan-X" by Tom's Hardware, in which they well woefully short of the AMD chips.
Sources:
yuuki_ans (Twitter), Tom's Hardware
19 Comments on Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" with HBM2E Beaten by Older AMD EPYC "Milan-X" in Leaked Benchmarks
AMD advantage in servers is nothing short of amazing but for us (4-8 (16??) cores, mortal gamer beings) is of no real help.
Also, The chiplet design really show it`s strength in the very high core count.
Shame it`s no so good use (read: Epyc level) in desktop.
Maybe the next RADEON chiplet design will prospect a movement from the somewhat boring status-quo we are in (consumers segment).
For servers, the #1 benchmark is how much energy does it take to complete a given task. That's harder to test for tech websites (systems will be different, mobos aren't widely available), but that is where Zen wins most of the time. Benchmarks like these are secondary concerns, at best.
and those 100k are from overclocked chips.
"we are shrugging about these rumors as well. They don't help the team working hard to bring these to market, they don't help the PC graphics community..one must wonder, who do they help?..we are still in first gen and yes we had more obstacles than planned to overcome, but we persisted."
That is neither yes or no. Just a politician's empty words statement.
What is interesting, that when you recalculate the two results with roughly same base clock (no. 1 and 4; 8472C has +300MHz in upper range of clock) to the perfomance for a single thread. You get results 424 and 426.
That says that IPC is slightly better for AMD's Milan-X. When the Bergamo/Genova will come to the market, it will probably leave Intel in the dust.
2 years of delay.