IT Home News on February 10, according to Phronix's evaluation of GH100 (including a single Grace chip), Nvidia's Grace server CPU (72-core ARM architecture) seems to be very competitive compared to AMD and Intel's products, and it has outperformed the top-of-the-line EPYC 9754 or Xeon Platinum 8592+ processors in many test items (but the overall performance is still lagging behind X86 products).
It's worth mentioning that Nvidia doesn't sell Grace chips separately, so the most basic GH100 and GH200 (including a Hopper GPU and a 72-core Grace CPU with 480GB LPDDR5X memory) are the only products that can test the performance of Grace CPUs.
Phoronix relies on GPTshopThe GH100 was tested remotely by AI (based on Ubuntu 23.)10 conducted), and compared with other CPUs, the summary results of IT Home are as follows:
Here are the GH200 CPU benchmark results (the lower the better):
The results show that the Grace chip has 15 better results compared to Intel Emerald Rapids, while 13 wins compared to AMD Bergamo and Genoa.
On average, Grace still lags behind the Emerald Rapids XEON Platinum 8592+ by 3% and 13% behind Bergamo's EPYC 9754 and GENOA's EPYC 9654.
According to Phoronix, there are still some workloads that are not optimized for ARQ64 (ARM), which is a key reason why Grace is now significantly disadvantaged in some scenarios.