AMD’s Zen 2 EPYC Processors will offer up to 64 Physical Cores
AMD’s Zen 2 EPYC Processors will offer up to 64 Physical Cores
AMD has previously confirmed that Zen 2 will be socket compatible with their existing EPYC CPU platform, making it no surprise that their 2nd Generation EPYC processors will offer the same 8-channel DDR4 memory setup as their 1st Generation counterparts.
In SPECfp, AMD has claimed that their 2nd Generation EPYC processors will offer a performance increase of around 2x when compared to their first generation offerings, a staggering increase today’s EPYC processors, setting up AMD to capture market share from Intel in the high-end datacenter market.
This performance increase will come through AMD’s use of TSMC’s 7nm manufacturing process and the company’s Zen 2 core architecture, which is discussed in more detail here. AMD has also confirmed that their Zen 2 EPYC processors will achieve their high 64x core count by using eight 8-core CPU dies.
With their 2nd Generation of EPYC processors, AMD plans to deliver a 2x improvement in performance per socket and up to a 4x increase in floating point performance per socket.
At this time it is unknown how many CPU core “Chiplets” will be used to construct AMD’s Next-Generation EPYC processors, making it unclear whether or not AMD’s 7nm Ryzen 3rd Generation processors will also see a 2x increase in core count on the high-end. Will AMD’s Next-Generation Ryzen 7 processors offer sixteen cores, or 3rd Generation Threadripper processors offer a full-fat 64-core experience? Only time will tell.
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