A 64-core AMD EPYC ROME is seen in the SiSoftware Sandra benchmark software, working at a maximum frequency of 2.4GHz.
AMD is expected to launch a large number of processors based on the Zen architecture during the second half of the year. The Zen 2 architecture is based on TSMC's 7nm lithography and is expected to add significant enhancements. The first one is the Chiplet design, which separates the Northbridge from the DIE, allowing to reduce costs, consumption and increase power. The first EPYC ROME has been seen within the SiSoftware Sandra benchmark software. This processor would be 64 cores and 128 processing threads.
Leaked an AMD EPYC ROME in SiSoftware Sandra software
EPYC ROME processors arrive with the intention of coping with Intel Xeon. What's more interesting is that the Northbridge is based on GlobalFoundries' 14nm, while the cores are based on TSMC's 7nm. They will momentarily compete with the 14nm Intel, although the company will launch the 10nm Xeon in the coming months.
SiSoftware shows us the ZS1406E2VJU5_22 / 14N processor, an engineering sample of 64 cores and 128 threads. This processor is characterized by working at 1.4GHz and in Boost mode reaching 2.4GHz and has 256MB of L3 cache. Curiously, in terms of frequency, it is below the EPYC 7601 that works at 2.2GHz base frequency and in Boost mode it reaches 3.2GHz.
A frequency setting that is designed to reduce consumption and therefore be more efficient than the Xeon Platinum 8199 processor with 28 cores and 56 threads that works at a base frequency of 2.8GHz and which can reach 3.8GHz in Boost mode. And it is that in the past we have seen how a 64-core ROME managed to beat the Xeon Platinum 8189, which has 56 cores and 112 threads.
Source: TH
