Last Friday AMD presented the new range of EPYC processors for servers with architecture Zen 5 and Zen 5C and that reach up to 192 cores. As AMD stated during the presentation, this new range of server processors, although confused with workstations, is the one that offers the best performance in every sense, both in power and consumption, information confirmed by the Phoronix media.
AMD’s new line of server processors are the EPYC 9575C with 64 cores, the EPYC 9755 with 128 cores and the EPYC 9965 with 192 cores. Of the new processors that AMD has presented, the one that offers better performance compared to the different Intel models is the model with 128 cores, the EPYC 9755 in dual socket configuration. This processor offers an average of 40% higher performance than the Intel Xeon 6980P.
Compared to the previous generation of AMD, it represents 1.55 more performance compared to the EPYC 9654 with 96 cores, while the EPYC 9965 model with 192 cores offers 45% more performance than its predecessor, the EPYC 9754 .
This performance improvement is associated with a somewhat higher energy consumption, but maintaining the previous line. During the tests, the EPYC 9965 with 192 cores had an average consumption of 275W with a peak of 461W, the EPYC 9755 of 324W with a maximum of 500W while the Intel Xeon 6890P had an average consumption of 322W with a peak of 547W.
In recent years AMD has taken over the server processor market. The launch of this new generation only confirms the good work that the company has been doing in recent years.
But its success in this segment is not based solely on the power and consumption of its processors, but also on the sales price. The new processor with 192 cores, EPYC 9965 is priced at $14,813, while the Intel Xeon 6980P with 128 cores goes up to $17,800, a notable difference in price and performance.
Waiting for what Intel does
Now the stone is in Intel’s roof. Intel’s response seems to come with a CPU with up to 288 E-Cores, which we know very little about so far. If it wants to regain some of the market share it has lost in recent years to AMR, it has to do very well, not only in terms of performance but also in consumption, without forgetting the price.
It is expected that this new range of Sierra Forest server processors will offer support for 12-channel DDR5 memory, allowing the cores to have greater bandwidth to work with. At the moment we do not know how much Intel plans to launch its new generation of server processors, but it should not take long if it does not want to be, once again, late to the market.
After the presentation of the new range of Intel Core Ultra 200S processors for desktop computers, with better performance and lower consumption, the blue company is expected to follow the same path with the next generation Intel Xeon, as long as it intends to recover the market share that AMD has taken from it in recent years.