AMD EPYC 5nm: two architectures

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AMD is releasing new details about the future of the EPYC line at its Accelerated Data Center Premiere conference for professionals.

AMD separates the future EPYC in two architectures AMD Epyc

The EPYC range will be divided into Genoa for the subdivision of high-performance processors for supercomputers. There will be a maximum of 96 cores in the Zen 4 architecture, shared with the future Ryzen 7000. This generation will go to 5nm, which allows doubling the density and energy efficiency while increasing the performance of the chips. They will support DDR5, PCIe 5 as well as CXL (Compute Express Link). For the cloud, AMD’s Bergamo are opting for a variant of the Zen 4 architecture, the Zen 4c similar to the Zen 4D architecture we told you about a few months ago. Zen 4c is designed with the goal of optimizing core density and energy efficiency. This is the vision of the hybrid architecture adopted by AMD, unlike Intel which opts for processors mixing two types of cores on its latest generation Alder Lake. This allows to get up to 128 cores on the Bergamo processors, against 64 currently for the EPYC Milan.

roadmap AMD EPYCFor now, AMD has not communicated specific dates, the Genoa processors are scheduled for 2022, and Bergamo for the first half of 2023.