Gigabyte MZ01-CE0 AMD EPYC Workstation Motherboard Review

1. Introduction2. MZ01-CE0 (rev. 1.0): Board Layout and Features3. MZ01-CE0 (rev. 1.0): UEFI BIOS4. Testing Methodology and Configuration5. Tests: Maxon Cinebench R156. Tests: SiSoft Sandra7. Tests: Blender Gooseberry8. Tests: SPECviewperf 139. Tests: Disk Performance10. Closing Thoughts11. View All Pages

SiSoft Sandra Memory Bandwidth

SiSoft Sandra is a synthetic benchmark, but we wanted to illustrate how much more memory bandwidth you get with the eight-channel controller compared to quad-channel. So we compared the Gigabyte MZ01-CE0 / AMD EPYC 7551P combination to the Armari Magnetar S16T-RW850G2, which includes an AMD Threadripper 1950X.

The EPYC 7551P has more than twice the memory bandwidth of the Threadripper 1950X, despite the former using 2,666MHz memory and the latter 2,933MHz. For applications that read and write a lot of data to and from main memory, the EPYC is going to have a real edge over any architecture that merely offers quad-channel memory.

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