Concept Guide

Performance of Dell PowerEdge servers with AMD EPYC 7002 Series CPUs
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Arithmetic performance
SPEC CPU2017 integer tests
The widely referenced SPEC CPU2017 benchmark is described on SPEC.org as:
The SPEC CPU
®
2017 benchmark package contains SPEC's next-generation, industry-standardized, CPU
intensive suites for measuring and comparing compute intensive performance, stressing a system's processor,
memory subsystem and code compiler. SPEC designed CPU2017 to provide a comparative measure of
compute-intensive performance across the widest practical range of hardware based upon the aggregate score of
10 integer and 13 floating-point real-world applications.
The integer portion of the benchmark is particularly good at measuring a server’s ability to run general business
applications. In figure 1, we see the EPYC 7742 configuration achieve as much as a 2.2x improvement
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in integer
throughput over the Xeon Platinum 8280, EPYC 7601 and Xeon Platinum 8180 based ones.
Figure 1 Two socket Platform Performance improvement running SPECint_rate_base2017
See the Appendix D for full CPU family model integer rate results.
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SPEC and SPECcpu are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The performance described is
based upon results posted at http://www.spec.org in Dec-2019, Apr-2019, Mar-2019 and Nov-2017 respectively.
https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2019q4/cpu2017-20191125-20017.html
https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2019q2/cpu2017-20190317-11165.html
https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2019q1/cpu2017-20190304-11124.html
https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2017q4/cpu2017-20171030-00243.html