AMD has officially introduced its new server processor series using Zen 3 cores. Designed to set the new standard for server processors, the 3rd generation of EPYC CPUs offer the best per-core performance and extend the series leadership in per-socket performance.

Offering a 19% IPC gain over the previous generation, AMD EPYC 7003 series processors are the company's latest solution for HPC, cloud, and enterprise systems. As per Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager of data centre and embedded solutions business group at AMD, the new AMD EPYC processors “not only double the performance over the competition”, but also break the exascale barrier when paired with AMD Instinct GPUs.

Bringing up to 64 Zen 3 cores with dedicated cache memory, the EPYC 7003 series processors support PCIe 4.0 and up to 8x channels of DDR4-3200 memory. The new EPYC processors also feature the AMD Infinity Guard security feature set, which includes a new feature named Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP). With SEV-SNP, memory integrity protection is added to better secure systems against hypervisor-based attacks.

The following table details the EPYC 7003 series specifications and pricing:

Processor	Cores	Threads	Base Frequency (GHz)	Max Boost Frequency (up to GHz)	Default  TDP (W)	cTDP  Min (W)	cTDP  Max (W)	L3 Cache (MB)	Pricing
7763	64	128	2.45	3.50	280	225	280	256	$7,890
7713	64	128	2.00	3.675	225	225	240	256	$7,060
7713P	64	128	2.00	3.675	225	225	240	256	$5,010
7663	56	112	2.00	3.50	240	225	240	256	$6,366
7643	48	96	2.30	3.60	225	225	240	256	$4,995
75F3	32	64	2.95	4.00	280	225	280	256	$4,860
7543	32	64	2.80	3.70	225	225	240	256	$3,761
7543P	32	64	2.80	3.70	225	225	240	256	$2,730
7513	32	64	2.60	3.65	200	165	200	128	$2,840
7453	28	56	2.75	3.45	225	225	240	64	$1,570
74F3	24	48	3.20	4.00	240	225	240	256	$2,900
7443	24	48	2.85	4.00	200	165	200	128	$2,010
7443P	24	48	2.85	4.00	200	165	200	128	$1,337
7413	24	48	2.65	3.60	180	165	200	128	$1,825
73F3	16	32	3.50	4.00	240	225	240	256	$3,521
7343	16	32	3.20	3.90	190	165	200	128	$1,565
7313	16	32	3.00	3.70	155	155	180	128	$1,083
7313P	16	32	3.00	3.70	155	155	180	128	$913
72F3	8	16	3.70	4.10	180	165	200	256	$2,468

By the end of 2021, AMD expects to grow the EPYC ecosystem to over 400 cloud instances and 100 new platforms powered by 3rd Gen EPYC processors. The AMD EPYC 7003 series are now available in multiple systems from Lenovo, Dell, HPE, Cisco, and Supermicro. VMWare also announced that the latest release of VMware vSphere 7 will support the new security features introduced by these CPUs. Moreover, cloud companies such as AWS, Google, Microsoft, Tencent, and Oracle will provide server instances powered by the new EPYC processors.

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