Intel counters AMD and claims that Xeon 5 is better than EPYC Torino

Intel counters AMD and claims that Xeon 5 is better than EPYC Torino


After AMD announced its EPYC Turin and demonstrated its dominance over Intel’s Xeon 5, the blue team did not let go and launched itself into the clash with its rival

A OMG announced its new generation of EPYC Turin processors for servers during Computex 2024 and compared the performance of the products with Intel Fifth generation Xeon, crushing the competition. However, Intel has decided to make amends and revealed this Friday (14) that its rival’s tests did not have the correct optimization for the Xeons, which outperform the EPYCs in the fight.



In the processor battle, AMD’s original chart compared the 128-core EPYC Torino to the 64-core Xeon 8592 on Llama2-7B Chatbot with inference on INT4. Both products were dual-socket configurations, but the AMD-friendly benchmark showed that the EPYC generated 671 tokens per second, compared to just 125 tokens for the Xeon, or a difference of 436%.

To get around the situation, Intel announced that all this difference only exists because AMD didn’t make the move correct optimization on Xeon. To demonstrate the difference, the blue team created an updated graph showing its fifth-generation Xeon beating 686 tokens per second and beating the EPYC Torino by 2%.

In fact, Intel also showed other tests where the Xeon 8594 beats the red team in translation and synthesis with up to 2.3x performance advantages. However, it is always worth remembering that the company’s official tests may present differences between memories, platforms and optimization, as we have seen in this case. The ideal is always to wait for the benchmarks of vehicles specialized in the subject to understand how true all the advantages are.




Numerous factors influence the result of a benchmark, which must be the same parameter in all tests (Image: Disclosure/Intel)

In addition to the announcement of the AMD EPYC in Turin at Computex, Intel announced its novelty Sixth generation Xeon dedicated to E-Core.

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