AMD 4th Generation EPYC "Genoa" Processors Benchmarked

[AleksandarK]

Yesterday, AMD announced its latest addition to the data center family of processors called EPYC Genoa. Named the 4th generation EPYC processors, they feature a Zen 4 design and bring additional I/O connectivity like PCIe 5.0, DDR5, and CXL support. To disrupt the cloud, enterprise, and HPC offerings, AMD decided to manufacture SKUs with up to 96 cores and 192 threads, an increase from the previous generation's 64C/128T designs. Today, we are learning more about the performance and power aspects of the 4th generation AMD EPYC Genoa 9654, 9554, and 9374F SKUs from 3rd party sources, and not the official AMD presentation. Tom's Hardware published a heap of benchmarks consisting of rendering, compilation, encoding, parallel computing, molecular dynamics, and much more.

In the comparison tests, we have AMD EPYC Milan 7763, 75F3, and Intel Xeon Platinum 8380, a current top-end Intel offering until Sapphire Rapids arrives. Comparing 3rd-gen EPYC 64C/128T SKUs with 4th-gen 64C/128T EPYC SKUs, the new generation brings about a 30% increase in compression and parallel compute benchmarks performance. When scaling to the 96C/192T SKU, the gap is widened, and AMD has a clear performance leader in the server marketplace. For more details about the benchmark results, go here to explore. As far as comparison to Intel offerings, AMD leads the pack as it has a more performant single and multi-threaded design. Of course, beating the Sapphire Rapids to market is a significant win for team red, so we are still waiting to see how the 4th generation Xeon stacks up against Genoa.



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[Wirko]

A couple other sites have reviews online too by now, and one is conspicuously missing: Anandtech.

 

[mashie]

Any particular reason you guys never link to articles over at ServeTheHome?

Like this one: https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-genoa-gaps-intel-xeon-in-stunning-fashion/

 

[stimpy88]

Any particular reason you guys never link to articles over at ServeTheHome?

Like this one: https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-genoa-gaps-intel-xeon-in-stunning-fashion/

Thanks for the link!

 

[Daven]

A couple other sites have reviews online too by now, and one is conspicuously missing: Anandtech.

I think Anandtech is close to going out of business. Either that or their entire staff is on vacation. There hasn’t been much posted except for ‘AT’ deals. In fact, they didn’t even mention the recent Sapphire Rapids and Ponte Vecchio presentation release.

I’m not 100% sure what’s going on over there but we might be losing a long time review site.

 

[Wirko]

Some reviewers (Club386, Tom's) can't refrain from giving "star ratings" to serious hardware. I find it amusing.

 

[stimpy88]

I think Anandtech is close to going out of business. Either that or their entire staff is on vacation. There hasn’t been much posted except for ‘AT’ deals. In fact, they didn’t even mention the recent Sapphire Rapids and Ponte Vecchio presentation release.

I’m not 100% sure what’s going on over there but we might be losing a long time review site.

I think your right.

Perch, then Future simply don't understand what they are, nor care about their audience. They almost died when Anand left them, but now that Mr Potato has left, and hammered the last nail in the coffin, they are finished.

 

[Oberon]

we are still waiting to see how the 4th generation Xeon stacks up against Genoa

Well, given that Sapphire Rapids is a Milan competitor and not a Genoa competitor, it won't be very well. The HBM-equipped models will win in some specialized workloads and fully-populated 8-socket configs will be fast, but AMD will be almost completely unchallenged at the high end.

 

[Daven]

Well, given that Sapphire Rapids is a Milan competitor and not a Genoa competitor, it won't be very well. The HBM-equipped models will win in some specialized workloads and fully-populated 8-socket configs will be fast, but AMD will be almost completely unchallenged at the high end.

You sir are correct. It’s not being widely reported but SPR was suppose to target Milan and release over a year ago. With no change in the silicon, SPR is DOA when it comes to the high end. Even Genoa-X will mitigate some of Intel’s advantages for specialized workloads.

Finally, WCCFtech has a leak of SPR pricing and its higher than AMD. That’s a good indication that Intel is also trying to hide the fact that they are outmatched.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

I think Anandtech is close to going out of business. Either that or their entire staff is on vacation. There hasn’t been much posted except for ‘AT’ deals. In fact, they didn’t even mention the recent Sapphire Rapids and Ponte Vecchio presentation release.

I’m not 100% sure what’s going on over there but we might be losing a long time review site.

I was wondering the same thing. They seem to get a fair amount of traffic based on article comments, but I don’t think they even review GPUs anymore.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

I was wondering the same thing. They seem to get a fair amount of traffic based on article comments, but I don’t think they even review GPUs anymore.

They still use the excuse of the GPU reviewer's house burning down - 2 years later. They refuse to elaborate on when GPU reviews will be coming back, saying something along the lines of "well other people review it so its fine". Also total crickets on any sort of deep dive arch review like the old days. Their last CPU review they switched to a 6950xt from their then antiquated 2080ti that they have never reviewed, so they clearly must have a bench somewhere.

Of course, I remember back when they got the new 2016 macbook pro for review, insistent a review was coming, and then just never did it. Totally dropped the ball, right there was the big indication anandtech was going down. IMO it started dying as soon as Anand left.

A couple other sites have reviews online too by now, and one is conspicuously missing: Anandtech.

Anandtech has been a dead man walking for years already. Just look at their comment system straight out of 2001.

 

[defaultluser]

Phoronixs benches were a pretty solid win as well:

AMD EPYC 9554 & EPYC 9654 Benchmarks - Outstanding Performance For Linux HPC/Servers Review - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

 

[Daven]

They still use the excuse of the GPU reviewer's house burning down - 2 years later. They refuse to elaborate on when GPU reviews will be coming back, saying something along the lines of "well other people review it so its fine". Also total crickets on any sort of deep dive arch review like the old days. Their last CPU review they switched to a 6950xt from their then antiquated 2080ti that they have never reviewed, so they clearly must have a bench somewhere.

Of course, I remember back when they got the new 2016 macbook pro for review, insistent a review was coming, and then just never did it. Totally dropped the ball, right there was the big indication anandtech was going down. IMO it started dying as soon as Anand left.


Anandtech has been a dead man walking for years already. Just look at their comment system straight out of 2001.

I’ve seen some dead review sites stay online presumably in order to earn the last remnants of advertising revenue. It is easy to tell if a site is dead when the last non automated article posting is greater than one month old.

 

[Jism]

I think Anandtech is close to going out of business. Either that or their entire staff is on vacation. There hasn’t been much posted except for ‘AT’ deals. In fact, they didn’t even mention the recent Sapphire Rapids and Ponte Vecchio presentation release.

I’m not 100% sure what’s going on over there but we might be losing a long time review site.

Some time ago, i tried to reset my password on the forums. I got an error message onsite completely exposing their email configuration. Basicly it attempted to send me an email without any authentication as the error log was posting that. When i wrote something here and there like hey i am unable to reset my shit, and there's obvious error messages being spit out that shoud'nt be there, nobody bothered to even pick it up.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

They still use the excuse of the GPU reviewer's house burning down - 2 years later. They refuse to elaborate on when GPU reviews will be coming back, saying something along the lines of "well other people review it so its fine". Also total crickets on any sort of deep dive arch review like the old days. Their last CPU review they switched to a 6950xt from their then antiquated 2080ti that they have never reviewed, so they clearly must have a bench somewhere.

Of course, I remember back when they got the new 2016 macbook pro for review, insistent a review was coming, and then just never did it. Totally dropped the ball, right there was the big indication anandtech was going down. IMO it started dying as soon as Anand left.


Anandtech has been a dead man walking for years already. Just look at their comment system straight out of 2001.

Yeah, it has gotten pretty rough since he left. Reminds me of winsupersite. Thurrott brought on new folks to help contribute, then he left to form his own site. Winsupersite resolved to stay online, but it’s dead now. Ironically, now that Paul has a site with his own name in it, he’s writing less and bringing in more writers to do all the news. Paul’s content is mostly behind a paywall. He’s a bit out of touch for my tastes.

 

[Zareek]

I think your right.

Perch, then Future simply don't understand what they are, nor care about their audience. They almost died when Anand left them, but now that Mr Potato has left, and hammered the last nail in the coffin, they are finished.

That's incredibly sad for me personally. Almost twenty-five years ago, I incidentally met Anand at a CompUSA in Raleigh, NC. I was with a friend who was shopping for a 3D card. He wanted to play Everquest, and needed something good enough to run it. My friend chose an Intel i740 based card. Anand was just a kid at the time but he made some very unbiased, informed recommendations. He then asked me to check out his website. I was hooked from the very first review. I still go there once a day out of habit. Occasionally, I read something, but the embedded autoplay videos drive me nuts! It's so sad to see what Anand built die a slow, agonizing death.