CPU for development work

[Vattila]

For those of you, like me, considering a CPU upgrade for development work, here are some relevant benchmarks. The 16-core AMD Ryzen 7950X3D looks pretty good. In particular, the PHP build test is amazing; beating the 96-core AMD EPYC 9684X beast by a second for pole position.

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D 16-Core at OpenBenchmarking.org:

• PHP Compilation Benchmark
• Wasmer Compilation Benchmark
• Build2 Compilation Benchmark
• FFmpeg Compilation Benchmark
• Mesa Compilation Benchmark
• Godot Compilation Benchmark
• Gem5 Compilation Benchmark
• MPlayer Compilation Benchmark
• LLVM Compilation Benchmark
• Linux Kernel Compilation Benchmark
• Node.js Compilation Benchmark

Please share sources of other good compilation benchmarks.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Unfortunately, I think most developers (majority being dotnet/java/PHP focused) are DUMB. They don't really care about benchmarks. If they did, they would write good, optimized code.

Anyway, I found this: https://www.igorslab.de/en/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-gaming-and-workstation-review/9/

Not that good in Python 3.6 math operations.

However, @Saylick should like the performance in the Seismic data processing workload: https://www.igorslab.de/en/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-gaming-and-workstation-review/10/

 

[igor_kavinski]

Cache isn't much help in Visual Studio: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d/9.html

But they don't describe what they do so it's quite possible that some other compilation workload in Visual Studio may benefit from the V-cache.

 

[Saylick]

Unfortunately, I think most developers (majority being dotnet/java/PHP focused) are DUMB. They don't really care about benchmarks. If they did, they would write good, optimized code.

Anyway, I found this: https://www.igorslab.de/en/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-gaming-and-workstation-review/9/

Not that good in Python 3.6 math operations.

However, @Saylick should like the performance in the Seismic data processing workload: https://www.igorslab.de/en/amd-ryzen-9-7950x3d-gaming-and-workstation-review/10/

Thanks for the link!

I think this plot is more applicable for my use case, so it doesn't look like V-cache would help too much. Of course, it really boils down to the application and no two structural analysis programs are alike.

 

[igor_kavinski]

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Review: AMD Retakes Gaming Crown with 3D V-Cache

AMD takes a bite out of Raptor Lake.

www.tomshardware.com

Lower frequency hurts the 7950X3D here.

 

[igor_kavinski]

https://gpuopen.com/gdc-presentations/2023/GDC-2023-AMD-Ryzen-Processor-Software-Optimization.pdf

My favorites:

Page 35: TEST COLD SHADER CACHE FIRST TIME USER EXPERIENCE

Page 36 to 38: Improve build times

Page 46: Modern sync APIs, look how bad spin locks are!

Page 47 to 68: Flew over my head but developers should love them