High-Performance, Scalable Data Center Products
Keep up with growing capacity and performance requirements. Whether you’re running cloud, big data analytics, or other mission-critical workloads, Intel® products and technologies are built to deliver exceptional performance in the data center.
Do More with Your Cloud Investment
Deliver the powerful performance per dollar you need on Intel® technology. Critical data-heavy workloads such as database, high performance computing (HPC), and web perform better at a lower total cost of ownership on Intel® architecture-based clouds.1 2 3 4
4.15x Higher Performance
Up to 4.15x higher performance/$ on High Performance LINPACK* and LAMMPS*.2
1.74x Better Performance
Better performance/$ on Server-Side Java and 1.74x better performance /$ on WordPress PHP/HHVM.3
2.25x Higher Performance
Up to 2.25x higher performance/$ for memory bandwidth applications.4
Features and Benefits
Leadership Performance
With built-in acceleration for AI, software optimizations and socket scalability, Customers are delivering leading edge solutions on the Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform for your next modern datacenter.
AI & Analytics
Seamlessly build and deploy AI applications at scale. It all starts on a foundation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, accelerated with Intel-optimized AI software.
High Performance Computing
Designed to solve your biggest challenges faster and with greater efficiency. The Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors with built-in HPC and AI acceleration help improve application performance to power new breakthroughs and speed time to insight.
Graphics & Accelerators
Intel delivers a new generation of architecture benefits to service providers with the Intel® Server GPU. It is purpose-built for the needs of differentiating services in the visual cloud era that will help providers rapidly scale out new offerings to meet new and escalating customer demands.
Scalable Performance
Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors are designed for the performance demands of complex, data-demanding workloads such as in-memory databases, and real-time business analytics.
Network Communications
Intel® Ethernet Network Adapters, Controllers, and Accessories enable agility within the data center to effectively deliver services efficiently and cost-effectively.
Enabled Software
Optimized independent software vendor (ISV) applications for Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors—increasing the speed and performance of vital applications.
Verified & Optimized Solutions
Accelerate your deployment of workload-optimized data center infrastructure with rigorously benchmark tested and verified solutions optimized for real-world performance.
Benchmarks
Click on the specific Intel® products and technologies to get performance-related benchmarks, white papers, and videos.
Compute
Check out the performance benchmarks for Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family-based servers.
Storage
Get the benchmarks that show how Intel® technologies can optimize data storage.
Network
Review Intel’s high-density virtualization, low-latency, and high-throughput benchmarks for networking.
Applications and Software
Find out how software solutions are optimized to work better with Intel infrastructure.
- 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors & Intel® Optane™ persistent memory
- Intel® AI Analytics Toolkit and popular deep learning frameworks optimized for Intel® architecture
- DAOS: High-Performance Software Defined Storage Over Persistent Memory
- Enterprise IT using Intel® Cache Acceleration Software (Intel® CAS)
- Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors and software: Better together
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Product and Performance Information
Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.
Performance results are based on testing as of dates shown in configurations and may not reflect all publicly available updates. See configuration disclosure for details. No product or component can be absolutely secure.
Intel® technologies may require enabled hardware, software or service activation.
Your costs and results may vary.
Intel does not control or audit third-party data. You should consult other sources to evaluate accuracy.
Results calculated by Intel P2CA using AWS pricing ($/hour, standard 1-year term, no up-front) as of 12th January, 2019.
Performance per dollar testing done on AWS* EC2 M5 and M5a instances (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/), comparing 96 vCPU Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar to AMD EPYC* processor performance per dollar.
Workload: LAMMPS*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 4.15X (higher is better)
HPC Materials Science – LAMMPS (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, LAMMPS version: 2018-08-22 (Code: https://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html), Workload: Water – 512K Particles, Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, 48 MPI Ranks, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=2, Score 137.5 timesteps/sec, measured by Intel on 10/31/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, LAMMPS version: 2018-08-22 (Code: https://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html), Workload: Water – 512K Particles, Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, 48 MPI Ranks, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=2, Score 55.8 timesteps/sec, measured by Intel on 11/7/18.
Changes for AMD to support AVX2 (AMD only supports AVX2, so these changes were necessary):
sed -i 's/-xHost/-xCORE-AVX2/g' Makefile.intel_cpu_intelmpi
sed -i 's/-qopt-zmm-usage=high/-xCORE-AVX2/g' Makefile.intel_cpu_intelmpi
Workload: High-performance Linpack*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 4.15X (higher is better)
HPC Linpack (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, HP Linpack Version 2.2 (https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mkl-benchmarks-suite Directory: benchmarks_2018.3.222/linux/mkl/benchmarks/mp_linpack/bin_intel/intel64), Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410 with AVX512, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=24, 2 MPI processes, Score 3152 GB/s, measured by Intel on 10/31/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, HP Linpack Version 2.2, (HPL Source: http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/hpl-2.2.tar.gz; Version 2.2; icc (ICC) 18.0.2 20180210 used to compile and link to BLIS library version 0.4.0; https://github.com/flame/blis; Addt’l Compiler flags: -O3 -funroll-loops -W -Wall –qopenmp; make arch=zen OMP_NUM_THREADS=8; 6 MPI processes.), Intel ICC 18.0.3.20180410 with AVX2, Intel® MPI Library for Linux* OS, Version 2018 Update 3 Build 20180411, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS=8, 6 MPI processes, Score 677.7 GB/s, measured by Intel on 11/7/18.
Results calculated by Intel P2CA using AWS pricing ($/hour, standard 1-year term, no up-front) as of 12th January, 2019.
Performance per dollar testing done on AWS* EC2 M5 and M5a instances (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/), comparing 96 vCPU Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar to AMD EPYC* processor performance per dollar.
Workload: Server Side Java* 1 JVM
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 1.74X (higher is better)
Server Side Java (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, Java Server Benchmark No NUMA binding, 2JVM, OpenJDK 10.0.1, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, Score 101767 Transactions/sec, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, Java Server Benchmark No NUMA binding, 2JVM, OpenJDK 10.0.1, RedHat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, Score 52068 Transactions/sec, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
Workload: Wordpress* PHP/HHVM*
Results: AMD EPYC performance per dollar = baseline of 1; Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor performance per dollar = 1.75X (higher is better)
Web Front End Wordpress (higher is better):
AWS M5.24xlarge (Intel) Instance, oss-performance/wordpress Ver 4.2.0; Ver 10.2.19-MariaDB-1:10.2.19+maria~bionic; Workload Version': u'4.2.0; Client Threads: 200; PHP 7.2.12-1; perfkitbenchmarker_version="v1.12.0-944-g82392cc; Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel Linux 4.15.0-1025-aws, Score 3626.11 TPS, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
AWS M5a.24xlarge (AMD) Instance, oss-performance/wordpress Ver 4.2.0; Ver 10.2.19-MariaDB-1:10.2.19+maria~bionic; Workload Version': u'4.2.0; Client Threads: 200; PHP 7.2.12-1; perfkitbenchmarker_version="v1.12.0-944-g82392cc; Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel Linux 4.15.0-1025-aws, Score 1838.48 TPS, measured by Intel on 11/16/18.
AWS M5.4xlarge (Intel) Instance, McCalpin Stream (OMP version), (Source: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/FTP/Code/stream.c); Intel ICC 18.0.3 20180410 with AVX512, -qopt-zmm-usage=high, -DSTREAM_ARRAY_SIZE=134217728 -DNTIMES=100 -DOFFSET=0 –qopenmp, -qoptstreaming-stores always -o $OUT stream.c, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS: 8, KMP_AFFINITY: proclist=[0-7:1], granularity=thread, explicit, Score 81216.7 MB/s, measured by Intel on 12/6/18.
AWS M5a.4xlarge (AMD) Instance, McCalpin Stream (OMP version), (Source: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream/FTP/Code/stream.c); Intel ICC 18.0.3 20180410 with AVX2, -DSTREAM_ARRAY_SIZE=134217728, -DNTIMES=100 -DOFFSET=0 -qopenmp -qopt-streaming-stores always -o $OUT stream.c, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux 7.5, Kernel 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64, OMP_NUM_THREADS: 8, KMP_AFFINITY : proclist=[0-7:1], granularity=thread,explicit, Score 32154.4 MB/s, measured by Intel on 12/6/18.
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AWS pricing as of 12th January 2019 Standard 1-Year term Reserved Instance Pricing (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/reserved-instances/pricing/) On Demand Linux/Unix Usage Pricing per hour (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/).