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posted by martyb on Monday March 15 2021, @11:06PM   Printer-friendly

AMD Unveils EPYC 'Milan' 7003 CPUs, Zen 3 Comes to 64-Core Server Chips

AMD unveiled its EPYC 7003 'Milan' processors today, claiming that the chips, which bring the company's powerful Zen 3 architecture to the server market for the first time, take the lead as the world's fastest server processor with its flagship 64-core 128-thread EPYC 7763. Like the rest of the Milan lineup, this chip comes fabbed on the 7nm process and is drop-in compatible with existing servers. AMD claims it brings up to twice the performance of Intel's competing Xeon Cascade Lake Refresh chips in HPC, Cloud, and enterprise workloads, all while offering a vastly better price-to-performance ratio.

Milan's agility lies in the Zen 3 architecture and its chiplet-based design. This microarchitecture brings many of the same benefits that we've seen with AMD's Ryzen 5000 series chips that dominate the desktop PC market, like a 19% increase in IPC and a larger unified L3 cache. Those attributes, among others, help improve AMD's standing against Intel's venerable Xeon lineup in key areas, like single-threaded work, and offer a more refined performance profile across a broader spate of applications.

One interesting new SKU is the EPYC 7663, a 56-core, 112-thread CPU with 7 working cores on each of the 8-core chiplets. There is also a 28-core EPYC 7453.

Next up, Zen 4 "Genoa".

Also at AnandTech, The Next Platform, Phoronix, and Ars Technica.

See also: The Tour of Italy with EPYC Milan: Interview with AMD's Forrest Norrod
AMD video announcement (51m4s) and recap (10m43s)


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 15 2021, @11:58PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 15 2021, @11:58PM (#1124651)

    Epic, eh.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 16 2021, @01:56AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 16 2021, @01:56AM (#1124680)

    Sheesh, what a beatdown. Intel are screwed !

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 16 2021, @03:58AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 16 2021, @03:58AM (#1124713)

    And likely the last post of the "Ides of March".