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AMD launches 3rd Gen EPYC processors with ‘double’ performance over Intel Xeon

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 (u
p 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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