Comment

Comment by tuetuopay

You are missing one critical element: NUMA awareness.

Because of the Chiplet design, Threadrippers and EPYC chips are basically NUMA systems, like you would with a multi-socket motherboard. This has an impact on both memory latency and bandwidth.

Redo your test, but pin each thread to a CPU thread, and its memory pool to a stick of ram attached directly to the CCX of said thread. The bandwidth you are measuring is the Infinity Fabric's bandwidth, NOT the DDR4 bandwidth.

You can read more about infinity fabric and its bandwidth here: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/infinity_fabric

parent tuetuopay 4 years ago

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton