Intel Xeon Platinum 8592+ "Emerald Rapids" Linux Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 14 December 2023 at 10:00 AM EST. Page 2 of 10. 26 Comments.
High Performance Conjugate Gradient benchmark with settings of X Y Z: 144 144 144, RT: 60. EPYC 9684X 2P - Power was the fastest.

First up happened to be the HPCG benchmark that craves speedy system memory and large/fast caches for this HPC benchmark. The dual Xeon Platinum 8592+ Emerald Rapids configuration was 17.4% faster than the dual Xeon Platinum 8490H Sapphire Rapids configuration. Or for those still on Ice Lake, the Xeon Platinum 8592+ 2P was 1.76x the performance of the Xeon Platinum 8380 2P. This flagship Emerald Rapids configuration was nearly fast enough to match the EPYC 9684X 2P Genoa-X configuration when running in power determinism mode but did outperform all the EPYC Genoa(X) and Bergamo processors when in the default performance determinism mode. HPCG is one of the benchmarks that also really does well with Xeon Max (HBM2e) but Intel at this time isn't updating Xeon Max for Emerald Rapids.

High Performance Conjugate Gradient benchmark with settings of X Y Z: 144 144 144, RT: 60. EPYC 9684X 2P - Power was the fastest.
High Performance Conjugate Gradient benchmark with settings of X Y Z: 144 144 144, RT: 60. EPYC 9684X 2P - Power was the fastest.

The Xeon Platinum 8592+ power consumption while running HPCG was similar to the Xeon Platinum 8480H processors. But with the great uplift in performance led to the performance-per-Watt being similar to the EPYC 9684X Genoa-X in power determinism mode and better than it in the default performance determinism mode. For those really craving maximum power efficiency though the AMD EPYC 8534P(N) Siena 64-core processors really shine with their Zen 4C cores.

NAS Parallel Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Test / Class: BT.C. EPYC 9684X 2P - Power was the fastest.

With other HPC benchmarks I was seeing really nice uplift from the Xeon Platinum 8490H 2P to the Xeon Platinum 8592+... Enough in some cases to close the gap to the EPYC 9554 64-core processor.

NAS Parallel Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Test / Class: BT.C. EPYC 9684X 2P - Power was the fastest.
NAS Parallel Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Test / Class: BT.C. EPYC 9684X 2P - Power was the fastest.

But in those tests the AMD EPYC Zen 4(C) processors tended to still deliver better power efficiency than Emerald Rapids.

NAS Parallel Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Test / Class: FT.C. EPYC 9754 2P - Power was the fastest.
NAS Parallel Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Test / Class: IS.D. EPYC 9684X 2P - Power was the fastest.
NAS Parallel Benchmarks benchmark with settings of Test / Class: SP.C. EPYC 9684X 2P - Power was the fastest.

The generational leap from Sapphire Rapids to Emerald Rapids ended up being much better than I was anticipating for being sort of a "refresh" generation. The Xeon Platinum 8592+ was now competitive to AMD's EPYC 9554 64-core processor in more benchmarks.


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