The E5 v3 is not the latest even under the old naming scheme. It is a chip from 2014. The E5 v4 "Broadwell" came out in 2016. Skylake SP came out in 2017 and Cascade Lake SP is the current SKU. The EPYC performance on that MySQL benchmark is 3 generations behind Intel.
> The EPYC performance on that MySQL benchmark is 3 generations behind Intel.
Intel's performance hasn't changed for 3 generations, either. They've been stagnant for years now with their 10nm roadmap being super late at this point, delaying their architecture updates at the same time.
Definitely wrong. Skylake SP is 50% faster than Broadwell on MySQL Sysbench, and Broadwell was 200% faster than Sandy Bridge. That's almost 500% improvement in 6 years. I haven't got a chance to evaluate Cascade Lake SP yet but I expect the pace of improvement to continue and they have hardware mitigations for Spectre/Meltdown/L1TF.
Horseshit. Unless you're comparing different core counts that'd make MySQL the extreme outlier against hundreds of other tests that have shown again and again and again and again that Intel's IPC has been stagnant for years now with OK but minimal frequency improvements.
