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AMD Unveils EPYC 7003 Series Server CPUs Based On Zen 3 Architecture (hothardware.com) 27

Posted by msmash from the moving-forward dept.
MojoKid writes: AMD announced new additions to its EPYC server processor lineup today, codenamed Milan. The company's EPYC 7003 series brings with it significantly improved IPC and per-core performance, better multi-core scaling, and more flexible memory configuration options, in a package that's socket compatible with its previous-gen CPUs. Like the current AMD Ryzen 5000 series desktop processors, new EPYC 7003 CPUs leverage AMD's new Zen 3 microarchitecture. Unlike its desktop parts, however, EPYC 7003 server processors use much larger packaging and feature up to CPU nine chiplets (up to eight 7nm CPU dies and a 12nm IO die), with up to 64 physical cores and 128 threads per socket. As things stand today, Intel doesn't currently have any Xeon processors that can match AMD in terms of single-socket core density. As such, AMD's EPYC 7003 series should consistently offer better performance in many workloads. Pricing for these new big iron processors ranges from $913 or the 16-core 7313P, and up to $7,890 for the powerful EPYC 7763, which AMD is calling "the world's highest-performing server processor." Though nearly $8K is not cheap, AMD appears to be continuing its aggressive price strategy with the EPYC 7003 series, relative to Intel's Xeon Scalable processors. The company also announced a who's who of data center and cloud service OEMs supporting the new platform, including AWS, Azure, Dell Technologies, HPE, Cisco, Google Cloud, Oracle and others.
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  • Big Iron (Score:3)

    by flyingfsck ( 986395 ) on Monday March 15, 2021 @02:36PM (#61161540)
    I don't think Big Iron means what you think it means.
  • We have recently purchased DELL server with AMD and it has been great. This is a build server and it is really fast. It is about the same as Intel based server when building without -j option, but when you allow for parallel builds, it is twice as fast. I would select all AMD build servers for the future purchases. This machine has A100 card and it is very fast at ML training as well. So far I found no downsides from selecting the AMD CPU. You can get similar configuration cheaper from Super Micro, but thei

    • Re:AMD makes excellent server processors (Score:4, Interesting)

      by flatulus ( 260854 ) on Monday March 15, 2021 @03:33PM (#61161772)
      Aye to that, sir. In 2018, I designed a small data center using Dell R6415 servers with 32-core EPYC (Naples) processors. The application is mission critical VoIP and in an abundance of caution, we threw as many CPU cores as we could fit in a single socket at the problem. I really don't know if we will ever push these processors hard enough to notice any degradation in service. We have thrown everything we have in our lab at them to generate load, and haven't seen any degradation in audio quality that we could attribute to the servers. Instead, if anything, it was our call endpoints (desktop PCs) that were the bottleneck.

      I can only imagine what Milan processors would do, because it will be at least 2-3 more years before we will refresh and get a chance to try these in operation. By then, Genoa will probably be released. My head spins at the concept of that much performance in a single socket!

      Oh, and by then I can only to hear about it through the grapevine because I will have retired :-(
    • I'm curious about your comment that Supermicro support is not that great, because in my experience they are excellent, extremely helpful.

      Would you mind filling in the blanks on your experiences? Thanks.

  • will apples chip be any where near this or will they just use there own chips to give up on the pro market?

  • What's left unsaid (Score:5, Informative)

    by DrMrLordX ( 559371 ) on Monday March 15, 2021 @03:18PM (#61161700)

    AMD has been shipping these CPUs to hyperscalars for awhile. They haven't pushed Zen3/Milan out onto the open market since, outside of their ODM sales, there hasn't been any real need to supplant Zen2/Rome which is still faster than anything Intel sells.

    Intel is shipping a VERY small number (~100k to date) of Ice Lake-SP server CPUs which barely compete with Zen2/Rome on a core-per-core basis. Intel simply has nothing which can compete with Milan.

    Truth is Milan has been sampling since late 2019. AMD's been sitting on this product for awhile.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Just seen your signature. Did something happen to APK?

      • He hasn't been heard from for quite some time, and it's hard to believe that he just decided to shut up and go away. Rumors of incarceration or involuntary psychiatric detainment have been floated...

      • They basically banned him from repeatedly shitposting at 0 as AC by forcing everyone to register to post. I think he lost interest and did something else with his life.

        He no longer updates his little hobby project of which he was so proud, either.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

          I do wonder what it must be like from the site admin's perspective. I have spoken to CmdrTaco about it a few times on Twitter. He really wanted to shut down the spamming but of course it was very difficult to do.

          Personally I was kind of fond of APK. Mostly ignored his spam but occasionally his posts were interesting.

          • APK was one of the most brilliant troll-not-trolls ever. His occasional forays into racism were frankly dull, so I try to see him as the whole rather than focus on his obsession with "j00gle" (Google) but whatever.

            Otherwise the guy was just so damn dedicated to . . . really anything that caught his interest that it was completely and utterly fascinating. And unlike spammers he often hand-wrote his posts (and then repeated them until people ran out of mod points). The GNAA is still using copy-pasta from a

            • Re: (Score:2)

              by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

              It's a shame he was so unwilling to just make an account. I can't remember what is reasoning was now.

              • He'd be modded to -1 instantly on most occasions since he can't stay on-topic. And he can't get around the modding system anymore. So. I guess that scared him off.

  • Nice. Now let's get to the motherboards...

  • your moment of Zen 3.

  • A chip by any other name... (Score:3)

    by fortunatus ( 445210 ) on Monday March 15, 2021 @05:09PM (#61162194)
    That would be 8 CPU dice and one I/O die in a package. Individual chips are cut from a wafer with a dicing saw. The singular of "dice" is "die", and the plural of "die" is "dice". Which is not to be confused with the dies made by a tool and die shop. Although folks may generally keep it straight when discussing ivories, or even carrots, it seems that nearly everyone interchanges the plural form when discussing microchips. Which kind of makes it right, right?

    • The singular of "dice" is "die", and the plural of "die" is "dice". Which is not to be confused with the dies made by a tool and die shop.

      So your evidence for the plural of die being dice not dies is that the plural of die is dice but the plural of die is dies but a die is a die not a die.

    • But what if its in that lovely AMD red colour? Is the then an I/O dye with 8 CPU dyes?

  • I wonder how large of an e.g. Origin 2000 supercomputer you'd need to match just one of these in a Linpack shootout.

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