Intel Xeon Scalable "Cascade Lake" Processors Launch - Initial Xeon Platinum 8280 Linux Benchmarks

The dual Xeon Platinum 8280 came out well ahead of the dual EPYC 7601 server in the NAMD scientific benchmark.

At least for now until EPYC 2 processors hit, in some of the single-threaded cases like Node.js the Xeon Scalable architecture wins hands down.

While the POWER9 CPUs are popular with some Linux users for having the possibility of a fully open-source computer when paired with the likes of the Raptor Talos II, in most of the tests the performance of this 176-thread POWER9 server was not competitive with the tested Xeon Scalable and EPYC hardware.