VMware is excited to announce that the first VMmark results using VMware vSphere 8 have been published and were used to highlight the performance of the new AMD EPYC™ 9004 Series Server Processors at their launch event last week. The results can be seen in context on the VMmark results page, but here is a summary:
| Processors | vSphere Version | Total Hosts | Total Sockets | Total Cores | Result |
| AMD EPYC 9654 | 8.0 GA | 2 | 4 | 384 | 40.19 @ 44 tiles |
| AMD EPYC 9374F | 8.0 GA | 4 | 8 | 256 | 34.22 @ 36 tiles |
Let’s compare the top-performing VMmark results for the 3rd Gen and 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors:
Key highlights include:
- The AMD EPYC 9654 processors have 96 cores, 1.5x more than the previous-generation 64-core EPYC 7773X processors
- The overall VMmark score is 1.7x higher than the previous generation
- The tile count is 1.8x higher than the previous generation (each tile consists of 19 VMs)
- The new VMmark result uses vSphere 8.0, while the previous result used vSphere 7.0
Here are some resources to learn more:
- What’s New in vSphere 8?
- VMware vSphere will support the latest 4th Generation AMD EPYC Processors
- AMD EPYC™ 9004 Series Server Processors
Here are direct links to the VMmark results compared above:
- vSphere 7.0 AMD EPYC 7773X result: 23.64 @ 24 tiles
- vSphere 8.0 AMD EPYC 9654 result: 40.19 @ 44 tiles
VMmark is a free benchmark tool used by hardware vendors and others to measure the performance, scalability, and power consumption of virtualization platforms and has become the standard by which the performance of virtualization platforms is evaluated. For more information, please visit the VMmark product page.
