Anon (Anon.delete@this.anon.com) on September 7, 2021 3:24 pm wrote:
> anon2 (anon.delete@this.anon.com) on September 6, 2021 3:36 pm wrote:
> > Result here
> >
> > Not a bad result compared with the recent quite equivalent HPE Superdome
> >
> > About 50% faster per socket, but about 50% slower per thread (and 2x the number of threads).
> > I think POWER has always done quite well on this benchmark for some reason (maybe it likes thread
> > level parallelism?) so it remains to be seen how this translates to other performance.
> >
> > The POWER10 is nearly as fast as a POWER9 with 2x more sockets though, so comparing POWER vs POWER
> > there is still significant gain. Thread strength up about 50% and threads per socket up about 50%.
>
> I think it is rather misleading to compare a 8 socket system to a 2 socket
> system. It is much harder to scale the results for a 8 socket system.
>
> The power10 already beats the fastest 16 socket system intel has on offer with
> the power10 which isn’t surprising since intel is still behind power9
>
> https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2018-benchmark-directory/#/sd?id=bm:770ee4bc-d08a-4379-a617-ef588c435e7f
>
> Lower end power10 systems will have much higher performance per socket than compared
> the result listed here (mainly because of double the number of cores per socket)

scratch that. I saw that you compared to an intel 8 socket result