This post is following previously published OLTP_RO results for MySQL 8.0 ( latin1 and utf8mb4 charsets), and now is focusing on Sysbench RW workloads, particularly "mixed" OLTP_RW and Update-NoKey :

• OLTP_RW : while this workload has writes, it's mainly driven by reads (OLTP_RO + 2 updates + delete + insert)
• Update-NoKey : aggressively bombarding UPDATE queries (but with no changes on indexed columns)

The same 2S Skylake server was used as in previous tests :
Server configuration :

• OS : Oracle Linux 7.4
• CPU : 48cores-HT Intel Skylake 2.7Ghz (2CPU sockets (2S), Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8168 CPU)
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Last year we already published our over 2.1M QPS record with MySQL 8.0 -- it was not yet GA on that moment and the result was obtained on the server with 4CPU Sockets (4S) Intel Broadwell v4. We did not plan any improvement in 8.0 for RO related workloads, and the main target of this test was to ensure there is NO regressions in the results (yet) comparing to MySQL 5.7 (where the main RO improvements were delivered). While for MySQL 8.0 we mostly focused our efforts on lagging WRITE performance in MySQL/InnoDB, and our "target HW" was 2CPU Sockets servers (2S) -- which is probably the most widely used HW configuration for todays MySQL Server deployments..
However, not only SW, but also HW is progressing quickly these days ! -- and one of my biggest surprises last time was about Intel Skylake CPU ;-)) -- the following graph is …