Epyc 7742 sweeps xeon platinum 8280 with lower price

EPYC 7742 based on the Zen 2 'Rome' core demonstrates its superior performance and much lower price than its current competitor, the Xeon Platinum 8280 (2SP). The 64 cores are enough to tear apart two 28-core Intel chips for a third of the price.

EPYC 7742 annihilates two Xeon Platinum 8280 with a third of the price

Let's start with the SpecIntRate_2017_rate_base figures. This is one of the best-known performance estimates for high-performance computing and is a category that has historically been dominated by Intel. Intel's Cascade Lake Intel Xeon 8280 scores 359 points here. It should be noted that it is a double female connector system with 28 cores each for a total of 56 cores. AMD's EPYC 7742 64-core processor, meanwhile, scores 654 points. This is roughly double the performance of the Intel counterpart.

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The best of all this is the cost of one and the other, totally favoring the AMD proposal. The new EPYC 7742 processor is valued at $ 6, 950 which beats a $ 20, 000 system, which is the two Xeon 8280 processors working in parallel. If we translate this figure into yield per dollar, we would see a 5.2-fold advantage for the AMD part.

We see a somewhat similar situation in the GROMACS ARCHERII benchmark, where the configuration of the Xeon 8280 reaches 4, 498 nanoseconds per day, while the EPYC 7742 reaches 6, 329 nanoseconds per day. It is a fairly high speed and something that is further exposed by the price differential.

AMD wants to continue its streak and further increase its server market share. For this, it already has in preparation the EPYC Milan processors based on Zen 3 and the Genoa architecture later based on Zen 4. We will keep you informed.

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