The document summarizes performance and architectural claims about AMD's new Naples server processor compared to an Intel Xeon E5-2699A v4 server processor. Specifically: 1) Naples was 2.5x faster than Intel in a seismic analysis workload simulation. 2) Naples has 33% greater maximum memory capacity and 45% more cores than Intel. 3) Naples has 122% greater maximum memory bandwidth and a 60% I/O density advantage over Intel.

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18. Performance claims
1 2.5X - Testing performed by AMD Engineering on AMD reference systems and an Intel-based production two socket platform. This 3D Laplace computation simulates a seismic analysis workload
used in the Oil & Gas industry; the Naples-based system resulted in ~713 computations/second while the Intel Xeon E5-2699A v4 system resulted in ~286 computations/second.
Architectural claims
2 33% greater memory capacity - Naples max memory capacity of 2.048 TB/processor. Intel Xeon E5-2699A v4 max memory capacity of 1.54TB/processor (Source:
https://ark.intel.com/products/96899/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2699A-v4-55M-Cache-2_40-GHz )
3 45% more cores - Naples 32C versus Intel Xeon E5-2699A v4 processor with 22 Cores (Source: https://ark.intel.com/products/96899/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2699A-v4-55M-Cache-2_40-GHz)
4 122% greater memory bandwidth - Naples Max memory bandwidth of 170.7GB/s. Intel Xeon E5-2699A v4 max memory bandwidth of 76.8GB/s (Source: https://ark.intel.com/products/96899/Intel-
Xeon-Processor-E5-2699A-v4-55M-Cache-2_40-GHz)
5 60% I/O Density advantage - Naples maximum of 128 PCI Express lanes. Intel Xeon E5-2699A v4 maximum of 40 PCI Express Lanes per socket, 80 in a two socket configuration (source:
https://ark.intel.com/products/96899/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2699A-v4-55M-Cache-2_40-GHz ).