Solution Brief

SOLUTION BRIEF

SUPERMICRO AND AMD ACHIEVE

OUTSTANDING LINEAR WORKLOAD SCALING

FOR ORACLE DATABASE 19C

AMD Powered Supermicro A+ Servers Accelerate Oracle Database 19c Performance

Executive Summary

Supermicro, working closely in partnership with AMD, has been a part of the AMD EPYC™ processor journey since the first

launch of AMD's “Zen” microarchitecture in 2017. Supermicro was one of the first server vendors to bring the 1

Gen AMD™

EPYC -processors to market with our H11 platforms. In 2019, Supermicro launched its first family of H12 generation AMD

processor-powered Supermicro A+ servers optimized to deliver a new level of integration and superior performance for

modern datacenters with the AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors. The new A+ servers, powered by the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC

7002 series processors, deliver up to two times the performance with up to double the core count compared to 1st Gen AMD

EPYC processor-based systems. With Supermicro’s next-generation architecture, the A+ servers take full advantage of 2x data

throughput of PCI-E 4.0 lanes that the new AMD processors provide, including the full spectrum of the latest components

storage, networking, accelerators like GPUs.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary

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Benchmarking with Oracle Database 19C

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Hardware Configuration and Set Up

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Hardware Linear Workload Scaling

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SUPERMICRO

Supermicro (Nasdaq: SMCI), the leading innovator in high-

performance, high-efficiency server and storage technology is a

premier provider of advanced server Building Block Solutions®

for Enterprise Data Center, Cloud Computing, Artificial

Intelligence, and Edge Computing Systems worldwide.

Supermicro is committed to protecting the environment

through its “We Keep IT Green®” initiative and provides

customers with the most energy-efficient, environmentally-

friendly solutions available on the market.

Solution Brief

Supermicro’s expertise and experience in optimizing systems for the AMD EPYC™ architecture has led to 27 world record

system performance benchmarks at launch, in August 2019, for 2nd Gen AMD EPYC 7002 series processors. World-record

performance benchmarks were set on Supermicro’s new H12 A+ Servers for TPCx-IoT and TPC-DS categories. For more

detailed information on AMD EPYC World Records, please see the URL (1) in the Footnotes. For TPCx-IoT, the performance of

472,200.88 IoTps was established on Supermicro's H12 TwinPro™ 2U 4-node server where faster IoT gateway data analytics

are critical for the coming explosion of IoT device numbers. This server delivers the highest performance and lowest

performance per dollar for a 10TB database with 64% higher QphDS throughput (Composite Query per Hour Metric) and cost

savings per QphDS over the previous world record holders, see the AMD EPYC 7002 Series Processors URL(2) in Footnotes.

Supermicro offers an industry-leading portfolio of AMD EPYC based systems based on Server Building Block Solutions®. From

single-socket mainstream and WIO servers to high-end Ultra server systems and multi-node systems, including BigTwin® and

TwinPro®, Supermicro enables customers to build application-optimized solutions with a wide range of configuration

possibilities.

AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors Brings Flexibility, Performance, and Security Features

AMD EPYC 7002 Series processors offer up to 64 x86 cores per socket for high-density requirements and can dramatically

increase your system performance while running a number of concurrent and complex applications. With higher frequencies

than the other offerings, the AMD EPYC 7Fx2 processors are optimized for frequency sensitive and single-threaded workloads.

This efficiency and speed can help you to achieve significant savings in the total cost of ownership (TCO). Based on AMD

Infinity Guard, the new 2nd Gen AMD EPYC 7002 series processors also feature advanced security, including Secure

Memory Encryption and Secure Encrypted Virtualization.

AMD EPYC 7Fx2 processors bring high frequencies and very high ratios of cache per core to the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC family of

processors along with the large memory capacity, extreme memory bandwidth, and massive I/O, to deliver exceptional

performance.

The tested configuration is shown below in Table 1. The AMD EPYC 7Fx2 processors offer high frequency that is specifically

designed to optimize per-core performance for frequency sensitive workloads and core-based software licensing models.

AMD EPYC 7Fx2 Processors Demonstrate Superior Performance on Transactional Processing Workloads with

Oracle Database 19c

Oracle® Database delivers leading-edge innovations in relational database management systems (RDBMS) for on-premises,

cloud, and hybrid workloads with exceptional performance and ease-of-use. AMD’s internal test results show that AMD EPYC

7Fx2 processor-based systems deliver high performance and outstanding scaling for Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)

performance with Oracle Database 19c.

Supermicro AS -1014S-WTRT server, powered by AMD EPYC 7F72

For this benchmark with Oracle Database 19c, we are using the Supermicro AS -1014S-WTRT server powered by AMD EPYC

7F52 and AMD EPYC 7F72. This system is a single socket, as shown in the table below. With AMD EPYC’s core density, it is cost-

effective and ideal solution for database processing and enterprise application workloads.