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Learn about our
latest world records
• Top SPECjbb®2015 critical-jOPS
records for both MultiJVM and
Composite configurations on our
single-socket-optimized Cisco
UCS C225 M6 Rack Server
• Top TPC-H 30-TB performance
on our Cisco UCS C245
M6 Rack Server
• New records propelled by 3rd
Gen AMD EPYC processors with
AMD 3D V-Cache™ technology
The world’s fastest processors from AMD bring
your workloads to life on Cisco UCS.
With our Cisco UCS® C225 M6 and C245 M6 rack servers powered by 3rd Gen
AMD EPYC™ processors, your most compute-intensive workloads come to life
with the simplicity of Cisco Unified Computing System™. Whether you are running
CPU-bound decision-support applications or Java enterprise middleware, our
world-record-setting performance as measured by industry-standard benchmarks
suggest that your workloads will run faster on Cisco UCS servers.
When you choose Cisco UCS servers to run your mission-critical workloads, you
get more than just high performance. You gain the simplicity and scalability of
our operating model. All of our servers—including those powered by AMD EPYC
processors—are integrated into the Cisco Intersight™ cloud-operations platform,
making it easy to consistently deploy innovative features such as AMD Secure
Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) as part of your configuration policies.
World-record-setting Java enterprise
middleware performance
World-record-setting
decision-support results
World-Record-Setting Performance
Three new world records for Cisco UCS powered by AMD EPYC processors
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Real-world performance
with Cisco UCS servers
Our world records demonstrate that Cisco UCS
servers with AMD EPYC processors are versatile
platforms for just about any application. Our
servers are the world’s fastest on both decision-
support benchmarks and Java enterprise
In today’s world of complex, distributed systems,
you need a way to predict how your servers will
respond to the complexity of intermixing not just
arithmetic performance but real-world operations
including I/O and context switching between the
many parallel threads that are active in enterprise
Java middleware. That’s where our SPECjbb2015
and TPC-H V3 results predict world-record-
setting performance for your enterprise data
center. Our latest single-socket records with the
Cisco UCS C225 M6 Rack Server demonstrate
the value of a single-socket-optimized server
that delivers the same I/O capacity whether
one or two CPUs are installed. Our latest two-
socket record on the TPC-H 30 TB benchmark
shows excellent support for database queries
and computation with the Cisco UCS C245 M6
Rack Server. This gives you even greater flexibility
to choose the platform that best propels your
workloads.
Our records achieved since the release of 3rd
Gen AMD EPYC processors, reflect real-world
performance that can propel your data center
to new levels of efficiency. We demonstrate the
gains that you can achieve by moving to 3rd Gen
AMD EPYC processors with results that span the
needs of today’s data centers.
3rd Gen AMD EPYC
processors
Having established performance leadership for
three processor generations, the AMD EPYC
7003 Series processors bring performance to a
new level. With industry-leading 7-nm process
Table 1. Java enterprise middleware performance as measured by the SPECjbb2015 benchmark and decision-support
performance as measured by the TPC-H V3 benchmark
Benchmark
Cisco UCS server
Result
Achievement
SPECjbb2015
MultiJVM
New result:
C225 M6
(max-jOPS-186968)
critical-jOPS=175561
Best 1-socket server for
critical-jOPS as of March 2022
SPECjbb2015
Composite
New result:
C225 M6
(max-jOPS=223558)
critical-jOPS=211094
Best 1-socket server for
critical-jOPS as of March 2022
TPC-H
30 TB Results
New result:
C245 M6
1,650,802 QphH
(830.54 USD per kQphH)
Best 2-socket server for TPC-H
30 TB result as of April 2022
Cisco UCS C225 M6
Rack Server
Optimized to deliver uncompromised I/O
capacity whether one or two CPUs are
installed, the Cisco UCS C225 M6 Rack
Server is one of the most versatile servers in
the industry. This high-density, 1RU, 2-socket
rack server supports a range of workloads
including virtualization, engineering design
big data, and edge-centric workloads.
• Up to two 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors
with up to 64 cores per socket
• 32 DIMM slots for up to 8 TB of memory
• Up to 10 SFF NVMe, SAS, or SATA drives
• Up to 3 PCIe Gen 4 slots
• Support for Cisco UCS Virtual
Interface Cards 1400 Series and
OCP 3.0 network cards
• RAID controller and GPU options
• Internal dual M.2 drive options
Figure 1. Cisco UCS C225 M6 Rack Server
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technology and the new ‘Zen3’ architecture,
these processors deliver up to 19 percent more
instructions per clock cycle compared to the
previous generation.
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This helps you drive
faster time to results, more and better decision
making, and better business outcomes.
With the world’s highest performance x86-
architecture server CPU,
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the AMD Infinity
Architecture delivers innovation with up to 32
MB of shared Level 3 cache per core in the
cache in processors equipped with AMD 3D
processors offer:
• Enhanced memory synchronization between
AMD Infinity Fabric™ and DRAM clocks
• Multilevel memory channel interleaving for
lowerbin processors
We deliver all of this to give you high performance
per watt of energy.
AMD Infinity Guard security features a secure
root-of-trust boot process.
2
Both full-memory
encryption and secure encrypted virtualization
help to keep your bare-metal and virtualized
environments safe from intruders. Enhanced
features to protect virtualized environments
include encrypted guest OS register state and
secure nested paging.
Decision-support results
records were set by the Cisco UCS C245 M6
Rack Server and AMD EPYC 7763 processors
with 64 cores per CPU. Microsoft SQL Server
2019 was used as the database manager running
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4.
The TPC-H benchmark is a decision-support
benchmark. It consists of a suite of business-
oriented ad-hoc queries and concurrent data
modifications. The benchmark models decision-
support systems that examine large volumes
of data, execute queries with a high degree of
complexity, and give answers to critical business
questions.
Java enterprise middleware
performance
The SPECjbb2015 benchmark provides bare-
metal and virtual performance measurements to
give you a more accurate assessment of the way
that Java enterprise middleware can perform in
your IT environment.
The max-jOPS results reflect the overall
throughput that the server can deliver. The
critical-jOPS results give a response-time
measurement. Our results show the throughput
that can be achieved with responses falling into a
• MultiJVM results show how well the server
can multitask between multiple Java virtual
• Composite results show the excellent vertical
scalability of the server in terms of how well a
single JVM utilizes the server’s cores. For the
Composite benchmark, all of the benchmark
instances must run within a single JVM.
Cisco UCS C245 M6
Rack Server
This server is well suited for a wide range
of storage- and I/O-intensive applications
such as big data analytics, databases,
collaboration, virtualization, and server
consolidation.
• Up to two 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors
with up to 64 cores per socket
• 32 DIMM slots for up to 8 TB of memory
• Up to 24 front-facing small-form-
including up to 4 NVMe drives
• 4 optional rear-facing NVMe drives
• Up to 8 PCIe Gen 4 slots
• Support for Cisco UCS Virtual
Interface Cards 1400 Series and
OCP 3.0 network cards
• RAID controller and GPU options
• Internal dual M.2 drive options
Figure 2. Cisco UCS C245 M6 Rack Server
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1. For a current list of world records see amd.com/worldrecords.
2. AMD Infinity Guard features vary by EPYC™ Processor generations.
Infinity Guard security features must be enabled by server OEMs and/or
Cloud Service Providers to operate. Check with your OEM or provider to
confirm support of these features. Learn more about Infinity Guard at https://
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Our newest results, established on the Cisco
UCS C225 M6 Rack Server, use a single 64-
3D V-Cache technology. This additional cache
propels Java middleware performance to new
heights. These new world records eclipse our
prior world-record results by 13 percent on
the MultiJVM critical-jOPS benchmark, and by
almost 20 percent on the Composite critical-jOPS
benchmark.
Originally designed to speed high-performance
computing applications, AMD 3D V-Cache
technology proves its value by setting new
performance records for multithreaded
environments such as Java enterprise
middleware. These results also demonstrate how
you can set world records on single-socket-
optimized servers, helping to increase data center
efficiencies.
Why Cisco?
The Cisco advantage is our architecture and
close working relationships with AMD and OS and
software vendors.
In addition to the power of the 3rd Gen
performance through our unique design of
hardware and firmware elements. The CPU
voltage regulator delivers load-step and load-
release current for CPU transients—a feature
above and beyond the CPU power requirements.
And our thermal design can operate, handle,
and sustain peak performance within the thermal
operating region. This, combined with BIOS
tuning, helped us to deliver exceptional results
compared to other server vendors.
Firmware settings, such as those that control
boost frequencies, are set through the Cisco
Intersight cloud-operations platform, helping you
enjoy consistently good performance as a matter
of the policies that you establish.
Learn more
• Cisco Unified Computing System
• Cisco UCS C225 M6 Rack Server
• Cisco UCS C245 M6 Rack Server
• AMD EPYC processors
AMD 3D V-Cache
technology
The AMD EPYC 7003
Series processors
equipped with AMD
3D V-Cache use 3D
die stacking to deliver
768 MB L3 cache per processor. The
technology is built on AMD’s
groundbreaking 3D Chiplet
architecture and uses 7-nm process
technology, These processors employ
industry-leading logic stacking based
on a copper-to-copper hybrid bonding
‘bumpless’ chip-on-wafer process to
enable over 200x the interconnect
densities of current 2D technologies,
which translates to lower latency,
higher bandwidth, and greater power
and thermal efficiencies.
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Figure 3. AMD 3D V-Cache
