Ampere Altra Max Continues To Deliver Competitive Power Efficiency To AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 11 December 2023 at 01:42 PM EST. Page 3 of 6. 81 Comments.
CloverLeaf benchmark with settings of Input: clover_bm16. EPYC 9684X was the fastest.
CloverLeaf benchmark with settings of Input: clover_bm16. EPYC 9684X was the fastest.

The Ampere Altra Max 128-core processor was typically seeing 150~170 Watt power consumption under load.

Rodinia benchmark with settings of Test: OpenMP LavaMD. EPYC 9754 was the fastest.
Rodinia benchmark with settings of Test: OpenMP LavaMD. EPYC 9754 was the fastest.

It will be very interesting to see how AmpereOne fits into the mix.

NWChem benchmark with settings of Input: C240 Buckyball. EPYC 9554 was the fastest.
NWChem benchmark with settings of Input: C240 Buckyball. EPYC 9554 was the fastest.
Xcompact3d Incompact3d benchmark with settings of Input: X3D-benchmarking input.i3d. Xeon Platinum 8490H was the fastest.
Xcompact3d Incompact3d benchmark with settings of Input: X3D-benchmarking input.i3d. Xeon Platinum 8490H was the fastest.

For those very concerned about power efficiency, it's not hard to see why Ampere Altra (Max) continues to see new deployments especially among hyperscalers.

LULESH benchmark with settings of . EPYC 9684X was the fastest.
LULESH benchmark with settings of . EPYC 9684X was the fastest.
LULESH benchmark with settings of . EPYC 9684X was the fastest.

Overall Ampere Altra Max has aged rather well in this space for Linux server power efficiency.

John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: bcrypt. EPYC 9754 was the fastest.
John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: WPA PSK. EPYC 9754 was the fastest.
John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: Blowfish. EPYC 9754 was the fastest.
John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: MD5. EPYC 9654 was the fastest.

For John The Ripper algorithms well tuned on AArch64, the 128-core Ampere Altra Max could outperform the Xeon Platinum 8490H in raw performance while the power efficiency overall was at the forefront.


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