With none doubt, Intel’s 4th Era Xeon Scalable ‘Sapphire Rapids’ server processors are among the many extremely anticipated merchandise in 2022. The CPUs have been delayed a number of occasions, and their specs stay a thriller. However as Intel’s companions are testing samples of the brand new processors, their benchmark outcomes inevitably emerge in varied databases. This time round, somebody posted outcomes from Intel’s 56-core Xeon Platinum 8480+ processor to Primate Labs’s Geekbench 5 database.
Because the identify suggests, Intel’s 56-core Xeon Platinum 8480+ with 112MB L2 cache and 105MB L3 cache belongs to the corporate’s crème-de-la-crème server CPUs with all cores and options (AMX, AVX-512, CXL, DSA, and many others.) enabled. Contemplating Intel’s third Gen Xeon Scalable nomenclature, we could also be coping with the brand new top-of-the-range SKU.
The Xeon Platinum 8480+ helps HyperThreading and has a base frequency of two.0 GHz, based on the Geekbench 5 database entry. The comparatively low clocks of the Xeon Platinum 8480+ (down from 2.30GHz within the case of the 40-core Xeon Platinum 8380 CPU) are a bit stunning as a result of it’s made utilizing Intel’s 10nm Enhanced SuperFin fabrication know-how that options superior energy supply and is mostly designed to allow excessive frequencies on CPUs with a excessive core rely. Maybe the brand new Sapphire Rapids processors function very excessive turbo clocks, however sadly, we don’t know how excessive the Xeon Platinum 8480+ CPU can go in turbo mode.
Primate Labs’s Geekbench 5 is hardly the perfect benchmark for server CPUs (particularly fashionable ones with varied special-purpose accelerators). Nonetheless, it provides some clues concerning the integer, floating level, and multi-thread efficiency. Nonetheless, contemplating that we’re coping with pre-production {hardware} and firmware (Tyan’s S5652AGM3NRE-2T LGA4677 motherboard was used), take the benchmark outcomes with a grain of salt.
| Xeon Platinum 8480+ | EPYC 7763 | EPYC 7773X | Threadripper Professional 5995WX | M1 Extremely | Core i9-12900K | Ryzen 9 5950X | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal specs | 56C, 2.0GHz – ?GHz, 112MB L3, 105MB L3 | 64C, 2.45 ~ 3.50GHz, 32MB L2, 256MB L3 | 64C, 2.20 ~ 3.50GHz, 32MB L2, 768MB L3 | 64C, 2.70 ~ 4.50GHz, 32MB L2, 256MB L3 | 16P, 4E, as much as 3.22GHz, 48MB SLC | 8P, 8E, 3.20 ~ 5.10GHz, 30MB | 16C, 3.40 ~ 5.0 GHz, 64MB | Normal specs |
| Single-Core | Integer | 639 | 1129 | 1143 | 1305 | 1632 | 1830 | 1435 | Single-Core | Integer |
| Single-Core | Float | 776 | 1437 | 1448 | 1715 | 1929 | 2189 | 1881 | Single-Core | Float |
| Single-Core | Crypto | 2069 | 3142 | 3157 | 3839 | 2803 | 6064 | 4089 | Single-Core | Crypto |
| Single-Core | Rating | 752 | 1322 | 1335 | 1555 | 1780 | 2149 | 1702 | Single-Core | Rating |
| Multi-Core | Integer | 36889 | 25446 | 50178 | 40600 | 21332 | 20631 | 16695 | Multi-Core | Integer |
| Multi-Core | Float | 39779 | 24662 | 50949 | 47800 | 27048 | 23205 | 18695 | Multi-Core | Float |
| Multi-Core | Crypto | 37642 | 10527 | 58040 | 56327 | 43345 | 17413 | 8145 | Multi-Core | Crypto |
| Multi-Core | Rating | 37794 | 24465 | 50802 | 43546 | 24147 | 21242 | 16868 | Multi-Core | Rating |
| Hyperlink | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/16285364 | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15865932 | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/14494330 | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15806221 | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15872094 | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/15911328 | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/9506672 | Hyperlink |
The efficiency of Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8480+ ‘Sapphire Rapids’ processor in Geekbench 5 is a combined bag: it wins in sure circumstances however loses badly in others.
The CPU is significantly behind AMD’s 64-core EPYC processors (that additionally function relatively low base clocks) in single-thread workloads. Intel’s Golden Cove microarchitecture (utilized by Sapphire Rapids and Alder Lake CPUs) has excellent single-thread efficiency, so maybe the rationale why Xeon Platinum 8480+ performs so poorly is as a result of the pre-production chip doesn’t enhance its clocks (i.e., applicable modes are disabled).
In multi-core workloads, Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8480+ exhibits its potential and outperforms AMD’s 64-core EPYC 7763 processor. In the meantime, it can’t beat AMD’s 64-core EPYC 7773X CPU, which is armed with 3D V-Cache, in addition to Ryzen Threadripper Professional 5995WX, which has significantly larger clocks.
On the whole, Intel’s 56-core Xeon Platinum 8480+ ‘Sapphire Rapids’ processor appears relatively promising for pre-production {hardware}. It appears like, for now, Intel hasn’t enabled enhance clocks on samples of SPR CPUs for sure causes, however what the 56-core/112-thread processor can do in multi-thread workloads at 2.0 GHz appears fairly spectacular.
