{"id":36875,"date":"2018-11-07T12:41:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=67c99f22da790caad2b66780ef41ca42"},"modified":"2018-11-07T12:41:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:41:25","slug":"amd-reveals-7nm-rome-epyc-processors-aimed-at-data-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/amd-reveals-7nm-rome-epyc-processors-aimed-at-data-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"AMD reveals 7nm ‘Rome’ EPYC processors aimed at data centres"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Tim Danton<\/a><\/span>
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7 Nov, 2018<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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AMD president and CEO, Dr Lisa Su, unveiled the company\u2019s next-generation EPYC server processor in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Dubbed \u201cRome\u201d, it brings 7nm manufacturing to the server CPU market for the first time, and is the harbinger of future 7nm Ryzen chips.<\/p>\n

At the same time, AMD launched the Radeon Instinct MI60 and MI50 graphics accelerators, which also sport 7nm-based chips and use AMD’s latest Vega architecture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re taking the power of 7nm tech, we\u2019re taking that advantage of doubling that bandwidth and we\u2019re bringing tremendous performance,\u201d said Dr Su at the launch event. \u201cWe\u2019re thinking not just about the CPU but about how the CPU connects to the rest of the components.\u201d<\/p>\n

This, emphasised Dr Su, was just as important as the processor itself. \u201cWhat Rome does is brings total system capability when you put [the CPU, GPU and interconnects] together.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new Rome EPYC\u00a0processors are built on top of AMD’s “Zen 2” architecture, with the processor’s core complex containing eight core dies, and each of those core dies has eight Zen 2 cores. That translates to 64 cores on the top-end version of Rome chips.<\/p>\n

For the moment, however, AMD is keeping quiet on processor clock speeds.<\/p>\n

What should this mean in practice? AMD claims Rome will deliver an unprecedented 3x speed increase compared to the previous generation processors in certain applications. \u201cI\u2019ve been in the semiconductor industry for a long time,\u201d said Dr Su, \u201cyou don\u2019t get 3x.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company promises an even bigger boost for floating point performance, with speeds four times that of the current EPYC processors.<\/p>\n

While demos at launches should always be treated with scepticism, AMD was happy to pit a top-of-the-range dual socket Xeon against a single-socket Rome processor and a current dual-socket EPYC system.<\/p>\n

Putting all three systems through the C-Ray benchmark side-by-side, the Rome-based system completed the test in 27.7 seconds compared to 30.5 seconds for Intel\u2019s machine and 28.4 seconds for the dual-socket EPYC system.<\/p>\n

AMD is already shipping the Radeon Instinct MI60 graphics accelerators to data centre customers, but would not be drawn on price.<\/p>\n

The company also claims that Rome has started sampling with customers but has not announced a price or availability other than saying \u201cnext year\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Danton<\/p>\n

7 Nov, 2018 <\/p>\n

AMD president and CEO, Dr Lisa Su, unveiled the company\u2019s next-generation EPYC server processor in San Francisco.
\nDubbed \u201cRome\u201d, it brings 7nm manufacturing to the server CPU market for the first …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36876,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36875\/revisions\/36876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}