Intel Xeon Ice Lake vs. AMD EPYC Milan Server Performance, Efficiency & Value In 2023

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 8 June 2023 at 05:00 PM EDT. Page 9 of 10. 8 Comments.
RocksDB benchmark with settings of Test: Random Read. EPYC 7513 2P was the fastest.
RocksDB benchmark with settings of Test: Update Random. Xeon Gold 6346 2P was the fastest.
RocksDB benchmark with settings of Test: Sequential Fill. Xeon Gold 6346 was the fastest.
RocksDB benchmark with settings of Test: Read While Writing. EPYC 7513 2P was the fastest.

The RocksDB results for that Meta/Facebook database were mixed depending upon the particular operations.

nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 1000. Xeon Gold 6342 2P was the fastest.

The Intel Xeon Gold series were leading when it came to the Nginx web server performance of static content.

nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 1000. Xeon Gold 6342 2P was the fastest.

On a performance-per-dollar basis for this Nginx benchmark the outcome was quite even between AMD and Intel.

nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 1000. Xeon Gold 6342 2P was the fastest.
nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 1000. Xeon Gold 6342 2P was the fastest.
nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 1000. Xeon Gold 6342 2P was the fastest.

While for Nginx web server power efficiency the results sided with Milan.

PHPBench benchmark with settings of PHP Benchmark Suite. Xeon Gold 6346 was the fastest.

When evaluating the single-thread/process performance of PHP, the Intel Ice Lake performance is slightly ahead of AMD EPYC Milan. Though keep in mind with the varying core counts is the possibility of having a denser deployment with AMD EPYC for high traffic PHP websites or more containers/guests per server.


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