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*AMD EPYC 7763
**AMD EPYC 72F3
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1 MLN-057K: Based on SPECrate®2017_int_base on 02/20/2021, a server powered by two 8c AMD EPYC 72F3 CPU has a measured estimated score of 176 with a per core score of 11.00 which is a higher per core performance score than any currently posted in any SPEC.org publication. SPEC®, SPECrate® and SPEC CPU® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org for more information.
2 MLN-016: Results as of 01/28/2021 using SPECrate®2017_int_base. The AMD EPYC 7763 a measured estimated score of 798 is higher than the current highest 2P server with an AMD EPYC 7H12 and a score of 717, https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2020q2/cpu2017-20200525-22554.pdf. OEM published score(s) for 3rd Gen EPYC may vary. SPEC®, SPECrate® and SPEC CPU® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org for more information.
3 MLN-003: Based on AMD internal testing as of 02/1/2021, average performance improvement at ISO-frequency on an AMD EPYC™ 72F3 (8C/8T, 3.7GHz) compared to an AMD EPYC™ 7F32 (8C/8T, 3.7GHz), per-core, single thread, using a select set of workloads including SPECrate®2017_int_base, SPECrate®2017_fp_base, and representative server workloads. SPEC® and SPECrate® are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Learn more at spec.org.
4 MLN-056: Each AMD EPYC 7003 processor has 8 memory channels. Each Intel Xeon Scalable processor has 6 memory channels. 8 – 6 = 2 ÷ 6 = 0.33 AMD EPYC has 33% more memory bandwidth. Class based on industry-standard pin-based (LGA) X86 processors.
5 MLN-055: AMD EPYC 7003 CPUs with PCIe4 lanes have 2X the I/O throughput capacity per lane than any Intel Xeon Scalable CPU which use PCIe3. PCIe4 provides 16GB/s of link bandwidth versus PCIe3 with 8Gb/s, https://pcisig.com/pci-express-delivering-needed-bandwidth-open-compute-project.
6MLN-074K: Based on SPECrate®2017_fp_base on 02/20/2021, a server powered by two 64c AMD EPYC 7763 CPUs has a score of 636 a compliant result run on an ThinkSystem SR665; with Memory: 512 GB (16 x 32 GB 2Rx4 PC4-3200AA-R); OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.3 (Ootpa); Compiler: C/C++/Fortran: Version 3.0.0 of AOCC. Versus the current highest score Intel Cascade Lake Refresh server with a score of 309 with a 2P Intel Gold 6258R based server, https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2020q3/cpu2017-20200915-23979.pdf. SPEC®, SPECrate® and SPEC CPU® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org for more information.
7 EPYC-10: AMD EPYC has up to 64c/128t and Intel Scalable has up to 56c/112t, per processor.
8 MLN-073K: Based on SPECrate®2017_int_base on 02/20/2021, a server powered by two 64c AMD EPYC 7763 CPUs has a score of 819 in a compliant result run on an ThinkSystem SR645; with Memory: 2 TB (32 x 64 GB 2Rx4 PC4-3200AA-R), OS: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (x86_64) Kernel 4.12.14-120-default; Compiler: C/C++/Fortran: Version 3.0.0 of AOCC. Versus the current highest score Intel Cascade Lake Refresh server with a score of 397 using 2P Intel Gold 6258R, https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2020q3/cpu2017-20200915-23981.pdf. SPEC®, SPECrate® and SPEC CPU® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org for more information.