On 02-08-2022, Dell Technologies achieved the top spot in the Single Socket - Matched Pair category with a score of 9.16 @ 10 tiles. This score was achieved using a pair of single-socket Dell PowerEdge R7515 servers powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC 7742 processors. Dell later broke its own record with the following publications:
- A pair of single-socket Dell PowerEdge R7515 servers, powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7763 processors, achieved the highest performance in the Server Performance category on 02-23-2022 with a VMmark score of 11.34 @ 12 tiles.
- A pair of single-socket Dell PowerEdge R7515 servers, powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC 7773X processors with AMD 3D V-CacheTM technology, surpassed the above results on 03-21-2022 with a score of 12.06 @ 13 tiles.
- A pair of single-socket Dell PowerEdge R7615 servers, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC 9554 processors, once again topped the list with a score of 13.51 @ 12 tiles on 01-03-2023.
- A pair of single-socket Dell PowerEdge R7615 servers, powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC 9654P processors, scored 20.65 @ 21 tiles on 01-03-2023. With this publication, Dell Technologies secured another leadership spot in the Single Socket - Matched Pair category.
By publishing these results, Dell Technologies has maintained its top spot in the Single Socket Servers – Matched Pair category since 2022-02-08 and still holds this achievement as of 10-30-2023.
Figure 2. Top three spots in the Single Socket Server Performance category
Figure 3 compares the top performing VMmark results for the Dell Technologies systems powered by 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors described in previous sections.
Figure 3. VMmark performance on Dell PowerEdge 1S systems across the generations of AMD EPYC processors
The key highlights of this solution include:
- AMD EPYC 9654P processors have 96 cores, which is 1.5 times more than prior generation 64-core EPYC 7773X processors.
- The 4th Gen VMmark score is 1.7 times higher than the prior 3rd Gen EPYC.
- The tile count of the 4th Gen AMD EPYC server is 1.6x higher than the prior generation, with each tile consisting of 19 VMs.