Intel Shares Real-World Xeon Sapphire Rapids vs EPYC Genoa Benchmarks Ahead of AMD’s Data Center Event

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Intel has published more "Real-World" benchmarks of its Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPUs versus the AMD EPYC Genoa offerings. The benchmarks come just a day ahead of AMD's grand data center event where the company will be unveiling its brand-new products and talking about what's next.

In its presser, Intel uses its 32-core Sapphire Rapids Xeon chip against a 32-core AMD EPYC Genoa chip to showcase the performance on mainstream server platforms. Chipzilla is also showing CPU performance comparisons between its flagship Xeon Max 56-core chip against AMD's top 96-core chips. The "Real-World" benchmarks used for comparison focus on mainstream compute, HPC, & AI workloads.

Kicking things off with the AI performance benchmarks, Intel is touting up to a 7.11x increase in performance on the Intel Xeon 8462Y (Sapphire Rapids) CPU versus the AMD EPYC 9354 (Genoa). All benchmarks show that Intel Sapphire Rapids not only leads in overall performance but also the performance per watt metrics. These workloads utilize the Intel AMX (Advanced Matrix Instructions) featured on Sapphire Rapids CPUs which delivers a boost to AI-specific tasks such as Classification, Natural Language Processing, Recommender, and Detection.

Moving over to a broader set of workloads ranging from SPECint to MySQL Casandra, MongoDB & also including workloads that utilize Intel's Accelerator engines such as Microsoft SQL, GROMACS, LAMMPS, NAMD, Monte Carlo, etc, we see up to a 2.52x improvement in overall performance and a 2.51x improvement in performance per watt versus AMD's 4th Gen EPYC Genoa chips. The biggest performance increases are seen within Storage and HPC-specific benchmarks. The general purpose workloads see a sub 1x improvement (on average) whereas Micro &