AMD EPYC 7Fx2, new processors for servers with great price / performance ratio

AMD EPYC processors have arrived to bring out the colors of Intel Xeon processors. Currently the company is working on offering all kinds of processors intended for servers and data centers. Many companies have chosen EPYC processors for their systems. Now the company expands the processor offering with the EPYC 7Fx2, which seek to offer an improvement in the performance / price ratio.

These EPYC Rome processors are based on the Zen2 @ 7nm architecture, just like Ryzen processors. The Zen2 architecture adds important changes, especially in memory management, which allows to significantly improve performance. AMD has even highlighted that the IPC of this architecture is considerably higher than what one might initially expect.

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AMD Announces New EPYC Processors

On these new EPYC Rome, specifically three models of adjusted price and good performance are added. The 7F32 offers us 8 cores and 16 threads, the 7F52 offers us 16 cores and 32 threads and the 7F72 offers us 24 cores and 48 threads. They are simpler solutions ideal for small servers in offices.

These EPYC 7Fx2 offer us an improvement in terms of price / performance and also in performance per core. In addition, the company compares them with the Intel Xeon under the 2P SPECrate 2017_int_base benchmark. Of course, Intel processors are far behind in price / performance.

The company compares the EPYC 7F52 of 16 to the Xeon Gold 6242 and 6246R processors, showing AMD processors as the best solution for businesses. The prices are similar in this case, but they offer some additional benefits. These EPYCs support up to 4TB DDR4 @ 3200MHz and support for PCIe 4.0. Additionally, each of the EPYC cores has 16MB of cache, which is eight times more than in the case of Intel processors.

Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Tencent, and Oracle, among others, already work with EPYC processors. El Capitan, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory supercomputer, and OAK Ridge Frontier make use of EPYC processors. Organizations like Metro France and the US Air Force also rely on AMD processors.

Complete specifications

• EPYC 7F52: 8 cores and 16 threads at a base frequency of 3.7GHz and 3.9GHz in Boost mode. It has 128MB of cache and a 180W TDP
• EPYC 7F32: 16 cores and 32 threads at a base frequency of 3.5GHz and 3.9GHz in Boost mode. It has 256MB of cache and a 240W TDP
• EPYC 7F72: 24 cores and 48 threads at a base frequency of 3.2GHz and 3.7GHz in Boost mode. It has 192MB of cache and a TDP of 240W