Comment by throwaway84742

I’m more impressed by Xeon Gold vs EPYC perf. The fact that Power 9 is currently slower on workloads that heavily benefit from hand-optimized code specific to Intel CPUs should not really surprise anybody. It’s likely that this code just uses a “portable”, slow implementation on Power9, just because nobody has the systems to work with yet. Additionally it’s also likely that most software in these tests can’t take advantage of such a huge number of threads.