AMD EPYC 7000 Series CPUs Launched
AMD has formally announced today their EPYC 7000 series line-up of processors, their server/workstation offerings based on Zen to finally battle Intel's multi-year dominance with Xeon and AMD's long-awaited successor to the Opteron family.
AMD's flagship EPYC 7601 processor has 32 cores, 64 threads, 128 PCI Express 3.0 lanes, eight channels of DDR4-2666MHz memory, and clocks up to 3.2GHz turbo (2.2GHz base) with only a 180 Watt TDP. At the bottom of the current EPYC line-up is the 7251 that has eight cores, 16 threads, and clocks up to 2.1GHz base / 2.9GHz turbo with a 120 Watt TDP.
EPYC can address up to 2TB of memory per CPU. Pricing on the EPYC 7000 series hardware hasn't yet been officially announced.
The line-up of products and more details can be found at AMD.com. No word on any review samples for being able to deliver Linux benchmarks.
AMD's flagship EPYC 7601 processor has 32 cores, 64 threads, 128 PCI Express 3.0 lanes, eight channels of DDR4-2666MHz memory, and clocks up to 3.2GHz turbo (2.2GHz base) with only a 180 Watt TDP. At the bottom of the current EPYC line-up is the 7251 that has eight cores, 16 threads, and clocks up to 2.1GHz base / 2.9GHz turbo with a 120 Watt TDP.
EPYC can address up to 2TB of memory per CPU. Pricing on the EPYC 7000 series hardware hasn't yet been officially announced.
The line-up of products and more details can be found at AMD.com. No word on any review samples for being able to deliver Linux benchmarks.
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