Major take-up of AMD EPYC 7000 series server processors

At the launch, the world’s largest server manufacturers ­- HPE, Dell, Asus, Gigabyte, Inventec, Lenovo, Sugon, Supermicro, Tyan, and Wistron - showed products based on AMD EPYC 7000-series processors.

Primary hypervisor and server EPYC optimised operating system providers include Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware. Key server hardware ecosystem partners including Mellanox, Samsung Electronics, and Xilinx also showed featured in EPYC-optimized platforms.

Lisa Su, president, and CEO, AMD, said, “With our EPYC family of processors, AMD is delivering industry-leading performance on critical enterprise, cloud, and machine intelligence workloads. EPYC processors offer uncompromising performance for single-socket systems while scaling dual-socket server performance to new heights, outperforming the competition at every price point. We are proud to bring choice and innovation back to the data centre with the strong support of our global ecosystem partners.”

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The AMD EPYC design, with up to 32 high-performance “Zen” cores and an unparalleled feature set, delivers greater performance than the competition across a full range of integer, floating point, memory bandwidth, and I/O benchmarks and workloads.

Antonio Neri, EVP and general manager Enterprise Group, HPE, said, “The EPYC processor represents a paradigm shift in computing and will usher in a new era for the IT ecosystem. Starting with the Cloudline CL3150 and expanding into other product lines later this year, the arrival of EPYC in HPE systems will be welcomed by customers who are eager to deploy the performance and innovation EPYC delivers.”

Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, president, server solutions division at Dell EMC, said, “As an industry leader, we are committed to driving IT transformation for our customers. Our next generation of PowerEdge servers are the bedrock of the modern data centre that are designed to maximize business scalability and intelligent automation with integrated security. The combination of PowerEdge and the AMD EPYC performance and security capabilities will create unique compute solutions for our customers to accelerate workloads and protect their business.”

Members of the “Super 7” data centre services providers, including Baidu and Microsoft Azure, as well as 1&1, Bloomberg, Dropbox, and LexisNexis, all voiced their support at launch.

Dr. Zhang Ya Qin, president of Baidu, said, “As the world’s largest Chinese language search engine and leading AI-Tech company, Baidu prides itself on simplifying a complex world through technology. The AMD EPYC one-socket server can significantly increase our data centre computing efficiency, reduce TCO and lower energy consumption. We will start deploying with the launch of AMD EPYC and I look forward to our cooperation leading to scaled EPYC adoption this year, and ongoing innovations.”

Girish Bablani, corporate vice president, Azure Compute, Microsoft Corp, said, “We’ve worked to make Microsoft Azure a powerful enterprise grade cloud platform, that helps guide the success of our customers, no matter their size or geography. To power Azure, we require the most cutting-edge infrastructure and the latest advances in silicon which is why we intend to be the first global cloud provider to deliver AMD EPYC, and its combination of high performance and value, to customers.”

AMD EPYC processors set several performance records, including:

Two-Socket Server:

• AMD EPYC 7601-based system scored 2360 on SPECint_rate2006, higher than any other two-socket system score

One-Socket Server:

• AMD EPYC 7601-based system scored 1200 on SPECint_rate2006, higher than any other mainstream one-socket x86-based system score
• AMD EPYC 7601-based system scored 943 on SPECfp_rate2006, higher than any other one-socket system score

EPYC Product Overview

• A highly scalable System on Chip (SoC) design ranging from 8-core to 32-core, supporting two high-performance threads per core.
• Industry-leading memory bandwidth across the line-up, with 8 channels of memory on every EPYC device. In a two-socket server, support for up to 32 DIMMS of DDR4 on 16 memory channels, delivering up to 4 terabytes of total memory capacity.
• Unprecedented support for integrated, high-speed I/O with 128 lanes of PCIe 3 on every product
• A highly-optimized cache structure for high-performance, energy efficient compute
• AMD Infinity Fabric coherent interconnect linking EPYC CPUs in a two-socket system
• Dedicated security hardware