AMD EPYC 9684X Genoa-X Provides Incredible HPC Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 19 July 2023 at 09:00 AM EDT. Page 7 of 8. 17 Comments.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Barbershop, Compute: CPU-Only. EPYC 9754 2P - Power 400W was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Barbershop, Compute: CPU-Only. EPYC 9754 2P - Power 400W was the fastest.
OSPRay Studio benchmark with settings of Camera: 1, Resolution: 1080p, Samples Per Pixel: 32, Renderer: Path Tracer. EPYC 9754 2P - Power 400W was the fastest.
OSPRay Studio benchmark with settings of Camera: 1, Resolution: 4K, Samples Per Pixel: 32, Renderer: Path Tracer. EPYC 9754 2P - Power 400W was the fastest.
OSPRay Studio benchmark with settings of Camera: 3, Resolution: 4K, Samples Per Pixel: 32, Renderer: Path Tracer. EPYC 9754 2P - Power 400W was the fastest.

In CPU rendering cases like Blender and OSPRay Studio, going for the EPYC 9754 Bergamo processor makes more sense where higher CPU core counts offer greater scalability than the increased L3 cache size. Until Intel Xeon Scalable is able to offer higher core count solutions, AMD 4th Gen EPYC processors easily steal the show. It's interesting to see the difference with Xeon Max 9480 2P HBM-only but reducing its competitive factor this generation is the lower core count and being limited to 64GB of HBM2e per socket.

Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer, Model: Asian Dragon. EPYC 9754 2P - Power 400W was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Asian Dragon. EPYC 9684X 2P - Power 400W was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Crown. EPYC 9684X 2P - Power 400W was the fastest.

Ditto for Intel's Embree ray-tracing kernels package where it will leverage as many cores as you can toss its way.

LeelaChessZero benchmark with settings of Backend: BLAS. EPYC 9684X 2P - Power 400W was the fastest.

LeelaChessZero's BLAS back-end did show a nice bump in performance when running with the EPYC 9684X in the 400W cTDP mode.

Xmrig benchmark with settings of Variant: Monero, Hash Count: 1M. EPYC 9684X 2P - Power 400W was the fastest.

Also showing very nice uplift was the Xmrig CPU miner software compared to the EPYC 9654.


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