Benchmarks
Benchmark insights.
Published since 2012: processors and accelerators compared on pricing and risk workloads. The current results and the licensed suite are on the home page.
2026
- 5 NovFastest NVIDIA GPU vs fastest AMD GPU we measured: AMD Instinct MI355X ahead on every workload, up to 3.9× fasterNVIDIA B200 against AMD Instinct MI355X: workload by workload on double-precision option pricing, with energy where it compares.
- 5 NovFastest Intel CPU vs fastest AMD CPU we measured: AMD EPYC Turin ahead on 3 of 4 workloadsIntel Xeon 6 (Granite Rapids) against AMD EPYC Turin: workload by workload on double-precision option pricing, with energy where it compares.
- 5 NovEnergy per result on GPUs in 2026Every GPU we measured, on the energy each uses per result, workload by workload on double-precision option pricing.
- 5 NovEnergy per result on CPUs in 2026Every CPU we measured, on the energy each uses per result, workload by workload on double-precision option pricing.
- 5 NovCPU vs GPU for pricing and risk in 2026The fastest CPU against the fastest GPU we measured, on quant finance workloads, workload by workload.
2017
- 28 JunIntel Xeon Phi (KNL) vs. Broadwell CPUIntel’s Knights Landing processor is the latest generation of the Xeon Phi many-core processor family.
- 18 AprNvidia P100 vs K80 GPUNvidia’s Pascal generation GPUs, in particular the flagship compute-grade GPU P100, is said to be a game-changer for compute-intensive applications.
2015
- 2 JunBenchmark: IBM POWER8 vs. Intel Xeon HaswellThe IBM POWER8 processor is starting to appear in financial applications where compute-intensive loads are the order of the day.
- 1 JanThe Future is Hybrid – Trends in HPCTrends in HPC hardware in 2015: CPUs, GPUs, Xeon Phi and FPGAs side by side, and why code that runs on all of them pays off.
2014
- 17 NovNVIDIA Tesla K80 vs. K40 GPUNVIDIA Tesla K80 against K40 on a Monte-Carlo LIBOR swaption portfolio pricer: hardware compared and measured speed (2014).
- 24 SepIntel Haswell vs. Xeon PhiIn our previous blog post, we have seen that Haswell (Xeon E5 v3 series) achieves a significant performance boost compared to the previous generation…
- 17 SepHaswell vs. Ivy Bridge for Financial AnalyticsIntel just released its new Haswell server processor line (Xeon E5 v3 series), promising significant performance gains over previous-generation…
2013
- 20 NovNVIDIA Tesla K40 vs. K20X GPUNVIDIA freshly released their new flagship Tesla GPU, the Tesla K40.
- 3 OctIvy Bridge vs. Sandy Bridge for Financial AnalyticsIntel just released its new Ivy-Bridge server processor line (Xeon E5 v2 series), promising significant performance gains over…
- 4 SepIntel Xeon Phi vs. NVIDIA Tesla GPUAccelerators battle for compute-intensive analytics in Finance At Xcelerit, people often ask us: “Which is better, Intel Xeon Phi or NVIDIA Kepler?”…
- 9 AprDerivative Pricing on Altera’s FPGAsA Monte-Carlo LIBOR swaption pricer ported to an Altera FPGA with OpenCL, compared with CPU and GPU in speed and power (2013).
- 5 MarIntel Xeon Phi vs. “Sandy Bridge”Let’s look into Intel’s brand-new high performance computing co-processor – the Xeon Phi.