AVX-512 Performance Comparison: AMD Genoa vs. Intel Sapphire Rapids & Ice Lake

Intel's OSPRay ray-tracing engine was enjoying 57% better performance on Sapphire Rapids with AVX-512 compared to 52% on Ice Lake but falling short of the 70% boost seen with AMD's Genoa.

OSPRay Studio was enjoying nice speed-ups from AVX-512 across all the tested processors.

Intel's oneDNN neural network library was seeing the most significant uplift from AVX-512 on Sapphire Rapids.

Ice Lake had higher power use and operating temperature with AVX-512 oneDNN use, unlike with Sapphire Rapids and Genoa.