AMD's Epyc X-chips are back after a three-year hiatus
First teased at CES earlier this year, the chips are primarily aimed at latency-sensitive technical and scientific computing workloads like computational fluid dynamics and electronic design automation (EDA).
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- But while gamers enjoyed the higher clocks and bigger caches on AMD's Ryzen 9000 processors, only now with Venice-X are those improvements making their way into Epyc.
- As we reported earlier this year, AMD's top-specced Venice CPUs boast 256 cores and 1,024 MB of L3 cache.
- Based on the House of Zen's frequency-optimized SKUs we looked at back in September, its HPC-optimized Venice-X parts will offer up to 96 cores and use the company's 3D V-Cache chip stack tech to triple the L3 cache density to more than a gigabyte.
The enterprise HPC kind of market tends to have a cadence that's a little bit slower, so that's what drives our cadence." Venice-X marks the return of AMD's X-chips, and for the most part, the processor largely follows the same recipe as its predecessors.
AMD's cache-packed Epyc X chips are officially making a comeback.
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- Later that year, AMD brought the same technology to its Milan generation of Epycs as the company expanded its portfolio to address a wider range of workloads.
- In fact, AMD did something like this for the Turin generation: For the Epyc 9175F, AMD essentially took a 128-core part and fused off 112 of the cores.
- But before you get too excited about another cache-packed Epyc, it'll be a little while before they actually ship.
- This tech has been around for several generations now, having first debuted in the Ryzen 7 5800X3D back in 2022.
- According to Madhu Rangarajan, who runs AMD's compute and enterprise AI products biz, this was intentional.
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