AMD EPYC: 64C/128T dual-CPU against Intel 56C/112T CPUs

AMD has been making some pretty serious waves with its Zen CPU architecture, but now that the enterprise/server-grade EPYC processors are here, Intel is in for a big fight - even with its spiffy new Xeon Platinum line of CPUs.

AMD's new EPYC 7601 comes in 32C/64T, but has been used in a dual-CPU server with a total of 64C/128T for some serious computational power - with SiSoft Sandra and Cinebench R15 2P benchmarks. We're seeing a competition between Intel's new 28C/56T processors in both single- and dual-CPU configurations, with a dual-CPU rig with Intel's new Xeon Platinum 8180 and a total of 56C/112T of power.

The benchmarks saw an average all-core CPU clock of 2.7GHz on all 64C/128T of AMD's dual EPYC 7601 system, while the dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 had 3.4GHz across all of its dual-CPU goodness at 56C/112T. In the Cinebench R15 performance, we're looking at AMD's EPYC 7601 scoring around 6879 points, while Intel's new Xeon Platinum 8180 pushes 8301.

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In SiSoft Sandra benchmarking, the new AMD EPYC 7601 in dual-CPU were pushing 1242 GFLOPs @ 2.2GHz base (2.7GHz boost), while providing 1348 MPix/s, and multi-core efficiency at 236GB/s. Comparing this to Intel's Xeon Platinum 8180 in dual-CPU mode, which is capable of 1345 GFLOPs @ 3.4GHz and a huge 4855 MPix/s of media processing prowess, killing AMD in an epyc way. The multi-core efficiency hits a virtually similar 237GB/sec.