Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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AMD had few words about commercial server CPUs. Not for gaming -- but they show where CPUs are headed. Cores and threads. GPUs used to have 1 or 2 "shaders" and now have thousands because that was the only way to make them a thousand times better. We'll see in a decade or so how far desktop CPUs get. .
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Epyc Performance
Su then talked about the company's Epyc processors for the data center. The 7nm Epyc Rome server chips come bearing the Zen 2 microarchitecture and come with 64 physical cores, which equates to 128 threads per processor, double that of the first-gen Naples chips. In a two-socket server, that equates to 128 physical cores and 256 threads in a single box.
Rome is also the first PCIe 4.0 CPU, which offers double the bandwidth per channel. AMD has also made the processors backward compatible with its existing server ecosystem
