AMD EPYC outshines Intel Xeon in the newest study focusing on CPU performance in the cloud
AMD EPYC Milan and Rome, the multi-core x86 and x64 microprocessors, blew away the competing Cascade Lake and Ice Lake Xeon CPUs from Intel between the three cloud platforms in various tests on performance conducted by database company CockroachDB. First, in the CoreMark version 1.0 benchmark test, which allows for both processing on an individual vCPU or multiple vCPUs, CockroachDB proved that AMD Milan CPUs outperformed Intel in many instances. The results also showed that AMD Milan, at its lowest performance, equaled Intel’s current Ice Lake CPUs in both OLTP and CPU benchmark tests. Regarding weighty instances, the GCP’s t2d model, or Tau, which uses third-gen AMD EPYC CPUs, would be ahead of Intel’s n2-standard examples, which utilize Ice Lake Xeon CPUs. — Cockroach Labs research CockroachDB reported all three cloud providers in the research to have slightly identical pricing. Also, CockroachDB notes that transfer and storage costs have a higher level of importance than the operational costs of any of the cloud providers. The hidden fees many cloud server companies offer can directly affect the resiliency of secure applications. Furthermore, Intel Xeon CPUs have been having a hard time keeping up with their release schedule with the more recent Sapphire Rapids 4th Gen Xeon family delayed from a 2020 launch to the 2nd quarter of 2023 while AMD will have their 128 core EPYC Bergamo lineup ready for launch around the same time. — Keith McClellan, director of partner solutions engineering, Cockroach Labs News Sources: The Register, CockroachDB
