AMD EPYC Milan Still Gives Intel Sapphire Rapids Tough Competition In The Cloud

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 30 March 2023 at 10:30 AM EDT. Page 4 of 8. 10 Comments.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Crown. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Asian Dragon. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.
Embree benchmark with settings of Binary: Pathtracer ISPC, Model: Asian Dragon. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.

The Embree performance on the EPYC Milan instances was decent while this is one of the workloads where EPYC Genoa will be significantly better. Intel's Embree can make extensive use of AVX-512 and from Genoa testing locally this open-source Intel software does very much perform very well on the EPYC 9004 series.

Intel Open Image Denoise benchmark with settings of Run: RT.hdr_alb_nrm.3840x2160. t2d-standard-8 AMD was the fastest.
Intel Open Image Denoise benchmark with settings of Run: RTLightmap.hdr.4096x4096. t2d-standard-8 AMD was the fastest.

Open Image Denoise supports making use of AVX-512 as well while here the T2D instance with eight physical cores was able to take the top spot in this comparison.

OpenVKL benchmark with settings of Benchmark: vklBenchmark ISPC. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.
OpenVKL benchmark with settings of Benchmark: vklBenchmark ISPC. c3-highcpu-8 SPR was the fastest.

The same goes for Intel's OpenVKL as another AVX-512 heavy software package.

uvg266 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Very Fast. t2d-standard-8 AMD was the fastest.
uvg266 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 4K, Video Preset: Ultra Fast. t2d-standard-8 AMD was the fastest.
uvg266 benchmark with settings of Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p, Video Preset: Very Fast. t2d-standard-8 AMD was the fastest.

The uvg266 open-source H.266 encoder was seeing much better performance on EPYC Milan than Xeon Sapphire Rapids with the current C3 VM tested.

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