Dual Socket Benchmarks of Naples SoC, AMD's Zen Architecture Based Server Platform, Leak Out

AMD is gearing upwardly for quite a comeback in 2022 with its x86 Zen architecture and while almost of our audience are concerned with the desktop variants, the server variants constitute a role of the company's lineup that is just as important (if not more). We accept already heard of AMD's server platform codenamed Diesel fuel, which features the Naples variant of the Zen processor, and this has only received its second iteration of benchmarks courtesy of the SiSoft Sandra database.

SiSoft Sandra benchmarks of AMD'southward Naples SoC platform leak out, 2S Dual Socket configuration with 64 Cores/ 128 Threads

I would like to add that the benchmarks were first spotted by DresdenBoy over at the NewCitaviaBlog and were immediately pulled afterwards being posted, but thankfully we have screenshots of them cheers to the vigilance of the DresdenBoy. The best kinds of leak contain the identifying lawmaking of the platform, and this detail one contained the entire string – which made our job much easier. The string of the processor in question is:

4x AMD Diesel Platform, 2S145A4VIHE4_29/14_N, 16 C

This particular variant has a base clock of ane.44 Ghz and a turbo clock of 2.9 Ghz (it tin can be deduced from the 29/14 suffix at the end of the identification tag). This is besides a dual socket outcome equally denoted by the 2S portion of the name tag and so we are dealing with two 32 core processors (each having 2 16 core dies on board). AMD's trademark lego-like build philosophy and Zen's unique MCM (Multi-Fleck Module) capabilities are credible here.

The benchmarks given above confirm some interesting specifications of Zen architecture. Showtime of all, as we have been saying for the past year, the full Naples configuration will have 16 clusters of 512 KB L2 and four clusters of eight MB shared L3. The PCI bandwidth is shown as 310 MB/s and the cryptography benchmarks are clocking out at 170 MB/s. These values are non up to par of what should theoretically be the performance of a 64 cadre setup so it is a fairly safe bet that the criterion is not utilizing the processor properly here. As nosotros have told you lot before, Zen will innovate some brand new cryptography tricks so information technology is probable that the benchmark is not able to utilize these new abilities.

The Processor and Multi Media portion shows a 643.37 Mpix/s performance which is adequately within range. Finally, processor fiscal analysis at double prevision is 667,500 OPTS. This is pretty decent performance and since AMD's value proposition is usually very high would be able to target financial institutions like Thomson Reuters.

AMD Naples and Pinnacle Ridge Pictured. (Prototype Credits: Anandtech)

Some of our readers might recollect that we have really seen this particular variant once before, namely in the form of Geekbench leaks that occurred a while back. Now the SiSoft Sandra entry lists 16 cores for this particular processor, simply that is really the separate dies existence detected. Since there are iv dies in play hither we are really looking at a total of 64 cores. This amount is consistent with what we saw in the Geekbench benchmarks but it's worth noting that the scalability of Zen Naples platform goes all the style from xvi cores to 64 cores and due to the ambiguous reporting patterns of these benchmarks its usually very hard to tell which specific variant nosotros are dealing with.

I also have another update to give you. The motherboards for AMD's Diesel platform have been prepare for a very long fourth dimension (the showtime shipping manifests date back to 12^th Baronial and contained the FOC tag) and it is abundantly clear that AMD is wrapping up on the final testing phase of these boards and gearing up for launch next yr. These benchmarks are non indicative of the final product since these are obviously from external testing past partners and not conducted with full compatibility of the benchmark suite.