AMD Completes 4th Gen EPYC Family with the AMD EPYC 8004 Processors, Purpose Built for Cloud Services, Intelligent Edge and Telco

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AMD announces availability of new AMD EPYC 8004 Series processors for optimized energy efficiency and strong performance

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• AMD extends leadership in single socket platforms with excellent CPU energy efficiency
• EPYC 8004 series processors offer up to 2x better SPECpower performance per system watt advantage compared to competition

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New processors deliver exceptional energy efficiency and strong performance in an optimized, single-socket package supported by Dell Technologies, Ericsson, Lenovo, Supermicro and others, and validated for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced availability of the new AMD EPYC™ 8004 Series processors, completing the 4^th Gen AMD EPYC CPU family of workload-optimized processors. These new processors bring the “Zen 4c” core into a purpose-built CPU, enabling hardware providers to create energy efficient and differentiated platforms that can power applications from the intelligent edge, such as retail, manufacturing and telco, all the way to the data center for cloud services, storage and others.

“The new EPYC 8004 Series processors extend AMD leadership in single socket platforms by offering excellent CPU energy efficiency in a package tuned to meet the needs of space and power-constrained infrastructure,” said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager, Server Business, AMD. “AMD has delivered multiple generations of data center processors that provide outstanding efficiency, performance, and innovative features. Now with our 4th Gen EPYC CPU portfolio complete, that leadership continues across a broad set of workloads – from enterprise and cloud, to intelligent edge, technical computing and more.”

Delivering Efficiency and Performance for Traditional Data Centers and Intelligent Edge
AMD EPYC 8004 series processors extend the leadership performance and efficiency of the 4^th Gen EPYC family to markets that seek strong performance, but also have significant requirements for energy efficiency, platform density and quiet operations. With the AMD EPYC 8004 series processors, customers and partners can expect:

• Excellent Energy Efficiency for the Intelligent Edge. Utilizing the efficient “Zen 4c” core and new SP6 socket which brings streamlined memory and I/O features the EPYC 8004 series processor can provide up to 2x better SPECpower® performance per system watt advantage compared to the competition’s top networking modelⁱ.
• Balanced Performance. In an industry that demands the ultimate performance per watt capabilities for space and infrastructure constrained environments, the AMD EPYC 8004 series processors deliver the balanced performance and excellent energy efficiency needed at the edge. In a video encoding workload, the EPYC 8534P provides up to 2.4x the aggregate frames/hour/system watt against the competition’s comparable networking productⁱⁱ. In an IoT Edge gateway workload an eight core EPYC 8024P powered server can provide ~1.8x the total throughput performance per 8kW rack, compared to the competition’s eight core processor.ⁱⁱⁱ
• Optimizing Savings for Intelligent Edge Deployments. Intelligent edge deployments focus on smaller nodes of servers, rather than full racks as expected within a data center. In an intelligent edge deployment of one, three or 10 servers, energy efficiency of an AMD EPYC 8004 series processor-based server, compared to the competition, can potentially save customers thousands of dollars in energy costs over a five year period, with better core density and more throughput.^iv
  

A Robust and Innovative Ecosystem
Additionally, numerous OEMs and partners unveiled a number of unique systems and solutions that take full advantage of the AMD EPYC 8004 series processor capabilities to work in a broad operating range for power and temperature needs, supporting deployments in dense data centers, to city telco buildings, to extreme physical environments like factory floors.

Dell Technologies released the Dell PowerEdge C6615 server. This system’s efficient form-factor optimizes high performance with low TCO for scale out workloads, like containers and microservices.

“The Dell PowerEdge C6615 with AMD EPYC Gen4 CPUs is purpose-built to deliver our best performance per watt, per dollar in a density-optimized form factor,” said Travis Vigil, senior vice president, product management, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies. “The solution is engineered to maximize compute performance in air-cooled environments without having to alter power or cooling capabilities. When combined with Dell OpenManage Enterprise software, we enable cloud service providers to intelligently monitor their systems and deliver more efficient compute services.”

With the AMD EPYC 8004 series processors, Ericsson sees a Cloud RAN computation acceleration solution that can successfully manage the immense traffic growth and leverage mobile networks in an energy efficient and performant manner. The core density and AVX512 capabilities of the processors also enable the capacity to handle the traffic profiles of a heavy loaded site with both FDD and TDD spectrum.

“Ericsson is steadfast in the pursuit of driving Open RAN forward, driven by our commitment to constantly developing cutting-edge solutions through close collaboration with our partners and customers," said Mårten Lerner, Head of Cloud RAN, Ericsson. "Through our strategic collaboration with AMD, Ericsson sees this launch as a key steppingstone in our relentless journey to accelerate Cloud RAN technology in areas like energy efficiency, enhanced performance and high-capacity solutions. As well, this enables us to offer choices for our customers on their Cloud RAN journey, while bringing additional flexibility to Cloud RAN deployments, with the goal of enhancing performance and securing high-capacity solutions to meet the high demands of delivering 5G connectivity and beyond.”

Lenovo announced its newest flagship edge-optimized server, the new Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 V3, which delivers the most energy efficient server available for enabling next generation AI applications at the edge and provides best-in-class performance, storage and expandability that is critical for supporting large and demanding edge AI workloads.

“Lenovo continues to push the boundaries of what is possible at the edge with groundbreaking innovation and design that delivers AI directly to your place of business,” said Charles Ferland, Vice President and General Manager of Edge Computing and Telecom at Lenovo. “The Lenovo ThinkEdge SE455 V3 harnesses the cutting-edge performance of the new AMD EPYC 8004 series processor to deliver unmatched computing performance and efficiency at the edge, unlocking data intelligence and enabling next-generation AI applications while lowering power consumption in a compact, quiet design that works discreetly even in the most challenging remote setting.”

Microsoft Azure highlighted their excitement for the EPYC 8004 series processors: “We are pleased about the launch of AMD EPYC 8004 Series processors. Customers running Microsoft Azure services at the edge in industries like retail and manufacturing will benefit greatly from the unique power, performance, and environmental capabilities that the EPYC 8004 Series provides," said Bernardo Caldas, CVP, Azure Edge PM. "We look forward to partnering with AMD and OEM partners to bring these new solutions to market.”

Supermicro introduced new edge platforms using AMD EPYC 8004 series processors. Based on the Supermicro H13 generation of WIO Servers, these platforms are optimized to deliver strong performance and energy efficiency for edge and telco data centers.

“The new AMD EPYC 8004 series processors in Supermicro standard rack mount and NEBS-compliant short-depth systems are ideal for diverse workloads,” said Vik Malyala, president, EMEA, senior vice president, WW FAE, solutions and business. “Improved performance per core, lower TDP, and extended lifecycle support from these processors combined with Supermicro’s innovative and energy-efficient servers with AC/DC power options offer superior value for our customers and extend support for intelligent edge and next-generation Telco markets.”

AMD EPYC 8004 Series Processor SKU Chart

Model	Cores/Threads	Base/Boostv Frequency (Ghz)	L3 Cache (MB)	DDR Channels / Max Memory Capacity	Max DDR5 Freq (MHz) (1DPC)	PCIe® 5 Lanes	Default TDP (W)	cTDP (W)	TCase Operating Range (°C)
8534P	64/128	2.3/3.1	128	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	200	155-225	0-75
8534PN	64/128	2.0/3.1	128	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	175	-	-5-85
8434P	48/96	2.5/3.1	128	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	200	155-225	0-75
8434PN	48/96	2.0/3.0	128	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	155	-	-5-85
8324P	32/64	2.65/3.0	128	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	180	155-225	0-75
8324PN	32/64	2.05/3.0	128	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	130	-	-5-85
8224P	24/48	2.55/3.0	64	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	160	155-225	0-75
8224PN	24/48	2.0/3.0	64	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	120	-	-5-85
8124P	16/32	2.45/3.0	64	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	125	120-150	0-75
8124PN	16/32	2.0/3.0	64	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	100	-	-5-85
8024P	8/16	2.4/3.0	32	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	90	70-100	0-75
8024PN	8/16	2.05/3.0	32	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	80	-	-5-85

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ⁱ SP6-008: Server-side Java^® overall operations/watt (SPECpower_ssj^®2008) claim based on 1P published results at spec.org as of 9/18/2023. 1P servers: EPYC 8534P (64-core, 200W TDP, 27,342 overall ssj_ops/W, https://spec.org/power_ssj2008/results/res2023q3/power_ssj2008-20230830-01309.html); Intel Xeon Platinum 8471N (52-core, 300W TDP, 12,281 overall ssj_ops/W, https://spec.org/power_ssj2008/results/res2023q3/power_ssj2008-20230822-01294.html.
ⁱⁱSP6-014: Transcoding (FFmpeg DTS raw to VP9 codec) aggregate frames/hour/system W comparison based on AMD internal testing as of 9/16/2023. Configurations: 1P 64C EPYC 8534P (437,774 fph median performance, 16 jobs/8 threads each, avg system power 362W) powered server versus 1P 52C Xeon Platinum 8471N (263,691 fph median performance, 13 jobs/8 threads each, avg system power 522W) for ~1.66x the performance and ~2.39x relative performance per W. Scores will vary based on system configuration and determinism mode used (max TDP power determinism mode profile used). This scenario contains many assumptions and estimates and, while based on AMD internal research and best approximations, should be considered an example for information purposes only, and not used as a basis for decision making over actual testing.
ⁱⁱⁱ SP6-005: Apache IoTDB edge gateway performance/system W/system $ comparison based on Phoronix Test Suite paid testing as of 8/18/2023. Configurations: 1P 8C EPYC 8024P (1.00x relative performance, 159 avg system W, est $3,441 system cost USD) powered server versus 1P 8C Xeon Bronze 3408U (0.81x relative performance, 227 avg system W, est $3,721 system cost USD) powered server for 1.23x the performance, 30% lower system power (1.76x the performance/system W), 8% lower system cost (1.34x the performance/system $) for 1.91x the overall system performance/W/$. Assuming an 8kW 42U rack deploying servers, 50 ea. EPYC 8024P (assuming a multi-node deployment) vs. 35 ea. Xeon 3408U can fit within the power budget delivering 1.76x the total IoT points/sec throughput/rack. Testing not independently verified by AMD. Scores will vary based on system configuration and determinism mode used (default TDP power determinism mode profile used). This scenario contains many assumptions and estimates and, while based on AMD internal research and best approximations, should be considered an example for information purposes only, and not used as a basis for decision making over actual testing.
^iv SP6TCO-001: This scenario contains many assumptions and estimates and, while based on AMD internal research and best approximations, should be considered an example for information purposes only, and not used as a basis for decision making over actual testing. The Bare Metal Server Greenhouse Gas Emissions TCO (total cost of ownership) Estimator Tool compares the selected AMD EPYC™ and Intel^® Xeon^® CPU based server solutions comparing a COUNT of 1-, 3-, and 10 server nodes and using integer throughput performance based on the published scores for Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC CPU based servers. This estimation reflects a 5-year time frame.
This analysis compares a 1P AMD EPYC_8534PN powered server with a SPECrate^®2017_int_base score of 439, https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2023q3/cpu2017-20230828-38760.html compared to a 1P Xeon Intel Platinum_8471N based server with a SPECrate^®2017_int_base score of 450, https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2023q3/cpu2017-20230619-37381.html.
Due the large variation in these costs these components: Admin costs are not included as part of this analysis. Real estate costs are not included as part of this analysis.
Core Assumptions: Cost of Power @ 0.128 per kWh; Power per rack for server use 8 kW (kilowatts); PUE (power usage effectiveness) of 1.7; server rack size of 42RU. The CPU & Chassis Power in this analysis is modeled at 100% of TDP for EPYC powered servers, and at 100% for the Intel based servers.
POWER ONLY OPERATING COSTS: For 1P servers in 1-, 3-, and 10-node configurations, EPYC 8534PN CPU-based servers uses 34% less power and 34% lower cost over the 5-years of this analysis.
The AMD EPYC solution supports an estimated 26 servers per 1 8kW rack(s); the Intel solution supports 17 servers 1 8kW rack(s). AMD has 23% more cores and can deliver up to 11414 units of integer performance per rack. Intel can provide up to 7650 units of integer performance per rack.
For more detail see https://www.amd.co/en/claims/epyc4#SP6TCO-001
^v EPYC-018: Max boost for AMD EPYC processors is the maximum frequency achievable by any single core on the processor under normal operating conditions for server systems.