• Server Model: G292-Z20-rev-100
  • always the POSITIVE first: overall it’s an excellent machine but the user needs to know the details
  • it has 1x BMC (LAN) and 2x slots for SPF fiber modules for example the SFP1G-SX-85
    • so have SPF fiber modules ready for server + a SPF module capable switch
    • it would have been nice to have had another 1000MBit or 10.000MBit copper based LAN port but well install an PCIe NIC then
  • it can hold up to 8 GPUs and 2x PCIe cards
  • 2x internal NVMe
  • 2x SAS attached NVMes (the orange slots)
  • a lot of BANG for the BUCK
    • a bit too loud
    • a bit too power hungry (uses 250W in idle with no GPUs installed and 350W with all cores on 100%)
    • unfortunately those front drive panels while having nice status and activity leds, feel pretty cheaply “plastic” made

having owned a AMD workstation (so far pretty happy with it) for a while GIGABYTE is a Taiwanese brand that is associated with:

  • high quality consumer hardware
  • the software quality of their firmwares and drivers is “okayish” (with a bit of tinkering it usually can made to work)

so really wanted to give this thing a test drive.

what was kind of unexpected:

Intel Xeon vs AMD EPYC vs Altra ARM CPU benchmark battle! 😀

PS: some Geekbench v6 comparisons:

some benchmarks: PLEASE TAKE THOSE GEEKBENCH RESULTS WITH MASSIVE HEAPS OF SALT AND ONLY AS ROUGH REFERENCE!

#prepare
mkdir -p /home/user/software/benchmark
cd /home/user/software/benchmark

# install
wget https://dwaves.de/scripts/benchmark_md5sum.sh.txt
mv benchmark_md5sum.sh.txt benchmark_md5sum.sh
# check what's in it before running it
vim benchmark_md5sum.sh

# if all good
chmod +x benchmark_md5sum.sh

# run
time ./benchmark_md5sum.sh 
title: === dwaves.de v1.2 ===
dates: 
               date-creation:    long-time-ago
               date-last-test:   2024-12-24  
what: simple sequential harddisk write and single core cpu benchmark
requirements: apt install coreutils
usage: in bash or sh run it like: time ./benchmark_md5sum.sh
=== installed cpu:
Architecture:                         x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):                       32-bit, 64-bit
Address sizes:                        43 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
Byte Order:                           Little Endian
CPU(s):                               24
On-line CPU(s) list:                  0-23
Vendor ID:                            AuthenticAMD
Model name:                           AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core Processor
CPU family:                           23
Model:                                49
processor	: 0
vendor_id	: AuthenticAMD
cpu family	: 23
model		: 49
model name	: AMD EPYC 7402P 24-Core Processor
stepping	: 0
microcode	: 0x830107a
cpu MHz		: 1500.000
cache size	: 512 KB
physical id	: 0
=== number of cores:
24
=== generate 1GB test file
1048576+0 records in
1048576+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 2.28527 s, 470 MB/s
=== display filesize of generated testfile
1.0G	md5sumTestFile
=== running md5sum on testfile (single core)
cd573cfaace07e7949bc0c46028904ff  md5sumTestFile

real	0m4.724s

head to https://www.geekbench.com/download/ to get latest version

as it is closed source there is no possibility of checking whats in it 🙁

Geekbench is a proprietary and freemium cross-platform utility for benchmarking the central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) of computers, laptops, tablets, and phones.

https://www.primatelabs.com/legal/eula-v5.html

https://www.primatelabs.com/legal/eula-v6.html

“TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL PRIMATE LABS OR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR”… (per default or only in case they get hacked???)… “VIRUSES, TROJAN HORSES, MALICIOUS SOFTWARE, FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES, MALWARE OR THE LIKE WHICH MAY BE TRANSMITTED TO OR THROUGH OUR ONLINE SERVICES, THE APP OR BY ANY THIRD PARTY”

wget https://cdn.geekbench.com/Geekbench-5.5.1-Linux.tar.gz
tar fxvz Geekbench-5.5.1-Linux.tar.gz

time ./Geekbench-5.5.1-Linux/geekbench_x86_64
real	2m31.201s

results: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/23309422

wget https://cdn.geekbench.com/Geekbench-6.3.0-Linux.tar.gz
tar fxvz Geekbench-6.3.0-Linux.tar.gz

time ./Geekbench-6.3.0-Linux/geekbench_x86_64
real	6m13.743s

results: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10237810

those Geekbench results are … strange to say the least… because more RAM “suddently” gives better single core performance? (THE SERVER WITH NEWER BIOS VERSION + LESS RAM WAS SLOWER THAN THE SAME SERVER WITH OLDER BIOS AND MORE RAM?)

how is that of any logic?

OF COURSE they now also have an AI Benchmark: https://www.geekbench.com/ai/

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