AMD has removed 4th generation EPYC processors designed for critical workloads Cloud (Opens in a new tab)Enterprise and High Performance Computing (HPC).
Unveiled at an event in San Francisco, AMD announced that the launch will provide increased energy efficiency and help its customers speed up the data center modernization process.
The AMD Zen 4 lineup is split into three families, the standard Zen 4 for EPYC Genoa, the Compute Density-Optimized Zen 4C for EPYC Bergamo, and the Cache-Optimized Zen 4 V-Cache under the EPYC Genoa-X series.
4th Gen EPYC
With up to 96 cores in a single processor, AMD claims its new EPYC suite should allow its customers to deploy fewer but more powerful servers To meet individual computing needs, which in turn will apparently drive more flexibility within the data center.
The fourth generation of data center fabric technology takes a more comprehensive approach to simplifying and extending connectivity, as well as a full range of infrastructure services.
Ram Bidiphutla, the company’s vice president of product management, told EPYC Pro radar technology The 4th generation EPYC qualities that make it the best server processor come in 3x and start with the kernel.
“We’ve been on a journey to improve our core and with Zen 4, we have very powerful cores. They’re paired with 5nm process nodes — this combination delivers very good performance at the socket level and at the pro core level,” he says.
“We’ve built enough of these cores into a bundle so we can wire up 96 cores in one bundle. When you have many powerful cores, they deliver exceptional performance. The third quality is the power efficiency of that. We don’t just look at performance per se. , but look at the energy that is being consumed.”
AMD is convinced that these processors will help bridge the gap between companies achieving their sustainability goals and drive profits in the real world.
Continuing, Peddibhotla says its customers can save very appreciable amounts of energy consumption and reduce energy costs through EPYC certification.
“In a very typical scenario, if you have 15 servers from Intel Corporation (Opens in a new tab) that are deployed, rather than being deployed, you can get the same performance by deploying five EPYC servers – which consume less than half the power,”
This directly translates to energy savings and sustainability benefits because there is a carbon footprint associated with this energy being produced. In this example 15 versus five, the difference between the two sides is 25 metric tons of CO2. This is equivalent to as much as 30 acres of American forests could be removed from the atmosphere.”
The Zen 4 solution features up to 12 CCDs, 96 cores, and 192 threads, and each CCD comes with 32MB of L3 cache and 1MB of L2 cache per core (Zen 3 provides 512KB per core).
“There are a lot of challenges that data center operators are trying to solve, and EPYC is a very compelling solution for data center operators to perform in general, whether that’s how many things the data center operator is trying to get done or how quickly they’re trying to get things done,” Bidiphutla added.
“It’s also a good answer to the footprint — you can get a lot for any given rack, and that’s an incredible value for a data center. If you think about how many racks can go into a data center, we can get twice the performance out of those racks, which is the equivalent of building a data center. Another – but for free.”
Available on-premises or in the cloud, the 4th generation AMD EPYC series processors expand on AMD Infinity Guard, a suite of features that provide layers of physical and virtual protection. In addition, AMD has doubled the number of encryption keys compared to previous generations to help its customers keep data secure when stored in the cloud or in storage.