Dell PowerEdge R7725 Delivers World Record SPEC Accel Results
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Abstract
The Dell PowerEdge R7725, equipped with AMD® EPYC® 5th Generation processors, set eight new SPEC® world records. These records highlight Dell Technologies’ compute performance and efficient power consumption for data centers. The exceptional performance of the Dell PowerEdge R7725 in computationally intensive parallel applications makes it an ideal server for high performance computing workloads.
This document summarizes the SPEC® Accel results, including major configuration details.
SPEC Accel world record results
Table 1. SPEC Accel SMD & LOP results
Base | Peak | |
---|---|---|
SMD | 2 | 2 |
LOP (CPU Accelerated) | 2.02 | 2.02 |
Table 2. SPEC Accel 2 CPU SMD & LOP results
2 CPU Base | 2 CPU Peak | |
---|---|---|
SMD | 2 | 2 |
LOP (CPU Accelerated) | 2.02 | 2.02 |
What do these scores mean?
The SMD metric measures the performance of a single hardware accelerator device. The SMD base score indicates the performance of the Dell PowerEdge R7725, reflecting how well it handles matrix operations under low optimization. Conversely, the SMD peak score represents the maximum achievable performance when the system is fully optimized. Overall, the SMD score represents the server's ability to operate across high and low computational tasks.
The LOP metric prioritizes the performance of the hardware when processing large sets of data. Therefore, the LOP base metric uses standardized setting to ensure a baseline. The LOP peak metric allows for the user to tailor optimizations to demonstrate the maximum performance of large-object processing.
Notes
- Results referenced are current as of October 7, 2024.
- To view SPEC Accel results, see Q4 2024 SPEC Accel SMD Results & LOP Results
- This benchmark was run by the Dell Solution Performance Analytics Lab.
About the Dell PowerEdge R7725
The Dell PowerEdge R7725 is the ideal solution for organizations requiring industry-leading compute performance in a mainstream rackable solution. The Dell PowerEdge R7725 features support for DDR5 memory technology, PCIe Gen5 storage devices, and support for up to 500W TDP processors. Additionally, two different CPU core architectures are available in the Dell PowerEdge R7725 at launch. Zen5 CPUs offer maximum per core performance, and Zen5c CPUs provide high performance, efficiency, and remarkable density with up to 192 cores per CPU.
Figure 1. PowerEdge R7725
Key configuration details
We tested 2 configurations of the Dell PowerEdge R7725 server:
- 2x AMD® EPYC® 9965 192 Zen5c cores at 2.0GHz – 384 cores total
- 2x AMD® EPYC® 9755 128 Zen5 cores at 2.6GHz – 256 cores total
What is SPEC Accel?
The SPEC Accel benchmark suite tests performance with computationally intensive parallel applications running under the OpenCL, OpenACC, and OpenMP 4 target offloading APIs. The suite exercises the performance of the accelerator, host CPU, memory transfer between host and accelerator, support libraries and drivers, and compilers.
Author: Jahnavi Badri, Charan Soppadandi, Compute Systems Technical Marketing