Workload Demonstration

As part of AMD's launch day event, they held an interactive demo session featuring eight separate demonstrations of what EPYC is capable of relative to Intel's current competition. Our own W1zzard was on hand to take a look at some of these.


The Cloud demo had six servers with AMD EPYC CPUs taking on a similar number of servers with Intel Broadwell-EP CPUs, with two hosts and a switch to complete the testing configuration. The test underway involved VMs and had a tachometer display the operations-per-second count for the two systems.


The data analytics demo was to show AMD and EPYC could do more with less servers as a result of the higher number of RAM slots and the higher bandwidth due to the 8-channel memory. Three AMD servers took on four Intel servers here, and a host and two switches completed the testing configuration.


The high performance virtualization demo is a compiler demo using a single AMD EPYC server taking on a single Intel Broadwell-EP server.


The secure encrypted virtualization demo was to show the SEV feature of EPYC we took a look at earlier. The demo system enabled secure loading of VMs, hypervisors, clients, and tenants with a single key and booting with secure root of trust.

AMD EPYC Demo Systems

Take a look below at some of the demonstration systems present at the AMD launch day event today.