AMD EPYC PROCESSORS

The third generation of AMD EPYC™ 7003 series is a new breed of server processors which sets a higher standard for data centres. Performance you can count on to propel your modern data centre workloads. The sophisticated concept helps you to easily deploy and change workloads.

Structure of the processors

The latest generation AMD EPYC™ 7002 uses AMD Infinity Architecture, a multi-die concept that delivers high performance. AMD Infinity processors consist of two main parts – 8 dies, each with eight processor cores (CCDs, produced by 7nm technology) and one I/O die (IOD) that provides security and communication beyond the processor.

First-to-market PCIe Gen 4 readiness

AMD EPYCs are currently the only x86 server processors that support PCI-E 4.0, delivering twice the performance of PCI-E 3.0. As a result, they offer up to 128 I/O lines and are thus able to double the bandwidth to connect to an HPC cluster. For other application needs and in virtualized environments, you can connect at higher speeds to GPU accelerators, NVMe drives, and even use integrated disk controllers to access disks without a typical PCIe RAID controller.

Comparison of AMD EPYC 7002 an 7003 series with its previous generation

As indicated above, these are the first server processors with x86 architecture that are built on 7nm technology. Thus, the EPYC 7002 and 7003 series CPUs use 7nm for the CPU cores themselves and 14nm for I/O (memory access and CPU security functions). At the same time, this new generation delivers up to 2.2x higher performance and up to 4x in theoretical FLOPS, compared to the previous generation of CPUs. Other advantages of the new AMD processors include improved security architecture – Secure Root-of-Trust Technology, Secure Memory Encryption (SME) or Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV).

PARAMETERS	AMD EPYC™ 7001 Series	AMD EPYC™ 7002 and 7003 Series	AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series s AMD 3D V-Cache™
Max. number of compute cores per CPU	32	64	64
Max. RAM size	2 TB	4 TB	4 TB
Max. RAM frequency	2666 MHz	3200 MHz	3200 MHz
Number of I / O lines	128 x PCI-E 3.0	128 x PCI-E 4.0	128 x PCI-E 4.0
L3 cache	up to 64MB	up to 256MB	up to 768MB

What does the next generation of processors bring?

Changes from the 7002 generation of the third generation AMD EPYC Milan include a higher performance jump of up to 25% for the most common 16-core processor and up to 15% for multi-core CPUs (48, 64 cores).

The new generation of AMD EPYC 7003 also brings changes in the L3 cache, the biggest advantages include:

2 × L3 cache directly accessible to the core

Up to 32MB of memory per core, which can be allocated to one active core

Improved performance in applications, where more cache memory is required

Reduction of memory latency

Better performance for virtual servers

As further changes, the AMD EPYC 7003 brings:

Zen 3 architecture, which brings increased performance to the core

Enhanced security features

Support for 4 configurations, newly 6 and 8 memory channels

Infinity FabricTN and Memory Clock Synchronized technologies that provide improved memory performance

We have prepared a detailed comparison of current processor architectures – Intel Xeon, AMD EPYC, IBM POWER, or ARM. In the article you will find tables with the parameters of each processor and also the advantages of their deployment for a specific type of applications.

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Processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™

The new AMD EPYC™ 7003 processors with AMD 3D V-Cache™ are built on groundbreaking AMD 3D Chiplet architecture, which uses 7nm technology. These processors then use stacking (silicon-on-silicon) and thus boast up to 200× higher throughput than existing 2D CPUs and more than 15× higher throughput than other CPUs using 3D technology.

Benefits of AMD 3D V-Cache™ processors

are designed to accelerate calculations in the areas of Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA)

compatible with existing AMD Epyc 7003 (SP3) socket

AMD 3D Chiplet architecture with 768 MB of L3 cache per processor, which can hold a larger volume of data and perform all demanding calculations closer to the core of the processor

a server with an AMD EPYC 7373X processor is capable of running up to 66% more EDA RTL simulations per day than a server equipped with a processor with the same number of cores (AMD EPYC 73F3)

EPYC 7003 processors with AMD 3D V-CACHE technology

Parameter	AMD EPYC™ 7773X	AMD EPYC™ 7573X	AMD EPYC™ 7473X	AMD EPYC™ 7373X
Number of cores	64	32	24	16
Threads	128	64	48	32
Base Frequency (GHz)	2,20	2,80	2,80	3,05
Up To Max. Boost Frequency (GHz)	3,5	3,6	3,7	3,8
TDP (W)	280	280	240	240
L3 Cache (MB)	768	768	768	768
DDR Channels	8	8	8	8
Max. DDR frequency (GHz)	3200	3200	3200	3200
Per-Socket Theoretical Memory Bandwidth (Gb/S)	204,8	204,8	204,8	204,8
Pcie® Gen 4 Lanes	128	128	128	128
Number Of Sockets	2P	2P	2P	2P

Testing

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