The Incredible Performance & Power Efficiency Of AMD Zen 1 vs. Zen 4C

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 25 January 2024 at 03:00 PM EST. Page 3 of 7. 33 Comments.
Apache IoTDB benchmark with settings of Device Count: 500, Batch Size Per Write: 100, Sensor Count: 500, Client Number: 100. EPYC 8534PN - Zen 4C was the fastest.
DuckDB benchmark with settings of Benchmark: IMDB. EPYC 8324P - Zen 4C was the fastest.
DuckDB benchmark with settings of Benchmark: IMDB. EPYC 8324P - Zen 4C was the fastest.
DuckDB benchmark with settings of Benchmark: TPC-H Parquet. EPYC 8534PN - Zen 4C was the fastest.
DuckDB benchmark with settings of Benchmark: TPC-H Parquet. EPYC 8534PN - Zen 4C was the fastest.

For various database workloads the Zen 4C Siena versus Zen 1 Naples performance was very clear.

Apache Cassandra benchmark with settings of Test: Writes. EPYC 8534PN - Zen 4C was the fastest.
Apache Cassandra benchmark with settings of Test: Writes. EPYC 8534PN - Zen 4C was the fastest.
Apache Cassandra benchmark with settings of Test: Writes. EPYC 8534PN - Zen 4C was the fastest.

Core-for-core Zen 4C was at around 2.5x the performance-per-Watt of Zen 1 for Apache Cassandra.

Speedb benchmark with settings of Test: Random Read. EPYC 8534PN - Zen 4C was the fastest.
Speedb benchmark with settings of Test: Random Read. EPYC 8534PN - Zen 4C was the fastest.
Speedb benchmark with settings of Test: Random Read. EPYC 8534PN - Zen 4C was the fastest.

For the Speedb database going from the EPYC 7601 to an EPYC 8324PN processor yielded 3.46x the number of operations per Watt.


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