─ Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Mellanox, Samsung
Electronics, Supermicro, VMware, Xilinx, and many others form
strong global ecosystem for EPYC™ processors ─
AMD (NASDAQ:AMD), and a global ecosystem of server partners, today
marked a new era in the datacenter with the launch of AMD EPYC™
7000 series high-performance datacenter processors. AMD was joined
by multiple customers and partners at the global launch event in
presenting a wide array of systems, performance demonstrations, and
customer testimonials. The innovative, record-setting AMD EPYC
design, with up to 32 high-performance “Zen” cores and an
unparalleled feature set, delivers greater performance than the
competition across a full range of integer, floating point, memory
bandwidth, and I/O benchmarks and workloads.
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“With our EPYC family of processors, AMD is delivering
industry-leading performance on critical enterprise, cloud, and
machine intelligence workloads,” said Lisa Su, president and CEO,
AMD. “EPYC processors offer uncompromising performance for
single-socket systems while scaling dual-socket server performance
to new heights, outperforming the competition at every price point.
We are proud to bring choice and innovation back to the datacenter
with the strong support of our global ecosystem partners.”
The world’s largest server manufacturers introduced products
based on AMD EPYC 7000-series processors at today’s launch,
including HPE, Dell, Asus, Gigabyte, Inventec, Lenovo, Sugon,
Supermicro, Tyan, and Wistron. Primary hypervisor and server
operating system providers Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware showcased
optimized support for EPYC, while key server hardware ecosystem
partners Mellanox, Samsung Electronics, and Xilinx were also
featured in EPYC-optimized platforms.
Leading Server OEM Platforms
“The EPYC processor represents a paradigm shift in computing and
will usher in a new era for the IT ecosystem,” said Antonio Neri,
EVP and general manager Enterprise Group, HPE. “Starting with the
Cloudline CL3150 and expanding into other product lines later this
year, the arrival of EPYC in HPE systems will be welcomed by
customers who are eager to deploy the performance and innovation
EPYC delivers.”
“As an industry leader, we are committed to driving IT
transformation for our customers,” said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla,
president, server solutions division at Dell EMC, “Our next
generation of PowerEdge servers are the bedrock of the modern data
center that are designed to maximize business scalability and
intelligent automation with integrated security. The combination of
PowerEdge and the AMD EPYC performance and security capabilities
will create unique compute solutions for our customers to
accelerate workloads and protect their business.”
Cloud Datacenter and Enterprise Customers
Datacenter and cloud service providers also welcomed EPYC to the
market today. Members of the “Super 7” datacenter services
providers, including Baidu and Microsoft Azure, as well as 1&1,
Bloomberg, Dropbox and LexisNexis, all voiced their support at
launch.
“As the world’s largest Chinese language search engine and
leading AI-Tech company, Baidu prides itself on simplifying a
complex world through technology,” said By Dr. Zhang Ya Qin,
president of Baidu. “The AMD EPYC processor powered one-socket
server can significantly increase our datacenter computing
efficiency, reduce TCO and lower energy consumption. We will start
deploying with the launch of AMD EPYC and I look forward to our
cooperation leading to scaled EPYC adoption this year, and ongoing
innovations.”
“We’ve worked to make Microsoft Azure a powerful enterprise
grade cloud platform, that helps guide the success of our
customers, no matter their size or geography,” said Girish Bablani,
corporate vice president, Azure Compute, Microsoft Corp. “To power
Azure, we require the most cutting-edge infrastructure and the
latest advances in silicon which is why we intend to be the first
global cloud provider to deliver AMD EPYC, and its combination of
high performance and value, to customers.
Record-Setting EPYC Performance
The excitement around EPYC is driven by multiple record-setting
server benchmarks achieved by EPYC-powered one-socket and
two-socket systems.
AMD EPYC processors set several performance records,
including:
• Two-Socket Server
- AMD EPYC 7601-based system scored 2360 on SPECint®_rate2006,
higher than any other two-socket system score1
• One-Socket Server
- AMD EPYC™ 7601-based system scored 1200 on SPECint®_rate2006,
higher than any other mainstream one-socket x86-based system
score2
- AMD EPYC 7601-based system scored 943 on SPECfp®_rate2006,
higher than any other one-socket system score3
All EPYC processors combine innovative security features,
enterprise class reliability, and support a full feature-set. An
AMD EPYC™ 7601 CPU-based one-socket system shifts expectations for
single socket server performance, helping lower
total-cost-of-ownership (TCO), providing up to 20% CapEx savings
compared to the Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4-based two-socket system4. At
every targeted price point for two-socket processors, EPYC
outperforms the competition, with up to 70% more performance in the
eight hundred dollar price band and up to 47% more performance at
the high-end of the market of four thousand dollars or
more5.
EPYC Product Overview
- A highly scalable System on Chip (SoC) design ranging from
8-core to 32-core, supporting two high-performance threads per
core
- Industry-leading memory bandwidth across the line-up, with 8
channels of memory on every EPYC device. In a two-socket server,
support for up to 32 DIMMS of DDR4 on 16 memory channels,
delivering up to 4 terabytes of total memory capacity
- Unprecedented support for integrated, high-speed I/O with 128
lanes of PCIe® 3 on every product
- A highly-optimized cache structure for high-performance, energy
efficient compute
- AMD Infinity Fabric coherent interconnect linking EPYC CPUs in
a two-socket system
- Dedicated security hardware
EPYC Product Lineup
Model |
Core / Thread |
Base Freq. |
Max Boost |
TDP |
EPYC™
7601 |
32 / 64 |
2.2 GHz |
3.2 GHz |
180W |
EPYC™ 7551P |
32 /
64 |
2.0
GHz |
3.0
GHz |
180W |
EPYC™ 7501 |
32 / 64 |
2.0 GHz |
3.0 GHz |
155/170W |
EPYC™ 7451 |
24 /
48 |
2.3
GHz |
3.2
GHz |
180W |
EPYC™ 7401P |
24 / 48 |
2.0 GHz |
3.0 GHz |
155/170W |
EPYC™ 7351P |
16 /
32 |
2.4
GHz |
2.9
GHz |
155/170W |
EPYC™ 7301 |
16 / 32 |
2.2 GHz |
2.7 GHz |
155/170W |
EPYC™ 7281 |
16 /
32 |
2.1
GHz |
2.7
GHz |
155/170W |
EPYC™ 7251 |
8 / 16 |
2.1 GHz |
2.9 GHz |
120W |
Additional Resources
- EPYC on AMD.com
- Learn more about the “Zen” x86 core
- Follow AMD datacenter developments on
Twitter @AMDServer
Cloud Service Provider Support
Bloomberg
“At Bloomberg, we handle the flow of information for
professionals in the capital markets. We look forward to AMD’s
leadership in the open standards communities, such as OCP, NVMe,
GenZ, and CCIX, to help accelerate the industry-wide adoption of
these innovative data center, storage, and interconnect solutions,”
said Justin Erenkrantz, head of compute architecture for Bloomberg,
the global finance, media and tech company based in New York City.
“With higher density and lower latency NVMe storage a primary
feature delivered by the AMD EPYC processor, we fully expect to
realize the next level of performance and cost efficiency.”
Dropbox
“Dropbox customers expect fast, reliable access to the content
they ask us to manage for them and EPYC delivers on those
requirements. We have worked closely with AMD during our evaluation
of EPYC in our environment and see significant potential in
lowering total-cost-of-ownership while improving performance in
single-socket designs," said Akhil Gupta, vice president of
infrastructure at Dropbox. "Our evaluation systems take advantage
of the industry-leading 128 lanes of PCIe on EPYC for storage
performance and capacity. Dropbox is exploring deployment options
for EPYC later this year, and I believe the future looks bright for
the relationship with AMD and EPYC.”
LexisNexis
At LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, we believe in the power of data
and advanced analytics for better risk management. As a trusted
data analytics provider for organizations seeking actionable
insights to manage risks and improve results while upholding the
highest standards for security and privacy,” said Flavio
Villanustre, vice president, Technology, LexisNexis Risk Solutions,
RELX Group. “LexisNexis processes more than 90 million transactions
per hour with HPCC Systems®, a proven, open source solution for Big
Data. LexisNexis Risk Solutions and AMD have teamed up to optimize
the HPCC Systems platform to take advantage of the benefits of
thread density, core performance, memory bandwidth and the industry
leading 128 lanes of PCIe per socket of the AMD EPYC
processor.”
OEM / ODM Support
ASUS
“We recognized early on the significant performance and
scalability potential of EPYC for a number of ASUS platforms
spanning HPC and virtualization workloads,” said Robert Chin, head
of ASUS Server business unit. “As a longtime AMD technology
partner, we are thrilled to design EPYC-based products that will
transform the datacenter experience and TCO for our customers.”
Gigabyte Technology
"GIGABYTE Technology is committed to pushing design boundaries
in the enterprise server market, and with the AMD EPYC CPU we can
take the customer experience to the next level with a single socket
solution,” said Daniel Hou, vice president, Research &
Development, GIGABYTE Technology. “By packing increased
performance, memory bandwidth and I/O into a smaller footprint,
EPYC will enable us to expand our portfolio and address channel
partners and system integrators in new target markets.”
Inventec
“Inventec is dedicated to driving innovation in a number of
industries by combining AMD CPU and GPU technologies on our
platforms, and AMD is a key technology partner for Inventec in the
cloud datacenter market,” said Jack Tsai, general manager of
Inventec EBG. “By integrating the new EPYC CPU into our server
portfolio, we can provide a more competitive, scalable and higher
performance solution to our worldwide datacenter customers.”
Lenovo
“The AMD EPYC processors present unique opportunities for our
customers to lower Total Cost of Ownership via an unprecedented
balance of cores, memory bandwidth, and I/O. We are excited
to collaborate with AMD and several global Hyperscale customers to
develop and deploy single socket and dual socket EPYC-based
servers,” said Paul Ju, vice president and general manager, Lenovo
Global Hyperscale Business.
Supermicro
“Supermicro’s new generation of server solutions supporting AMD
EPYC processors will unlock many opportunities for datacenter
customers to leverage these innovative platforms,” said Don Clegg,
vice president of Marketing and Business Development at Supermicro.
“AMD EPYC processors with more cores, more memory bandwidth, and
more I/O integrate effortlessly with our Supermicro
application-optimized platforms to provide leadership performance
per-watt and per-dollar to optimize data center TCO. We are
delighted to embrace this opportunity to strengthen and grow our
mutually productive technology partnership with AMD.”
Tyan
“Tyan has a long history of supporting AMD, and we are excited
about the impact the company’s return to the datacenter market will
have on our customers,” said Danny Hsu, vice president of MiTAC
Computing Technology Corporation's TYAN Business Unit. “We see
major promise for storage and HPC platforms with the EPYC CPU, as
well as new possibilities for combined GPU solutions, enabling a
wide array of new applications for customers around the globe.”
Wistron
“Wistron is glad to work with AMD to provide the most
cost-effective all-flash array storage solutions for businesses
competing in a constantly changing technology landscape,” said
Peter Tung, chief operation officer of Enterprise Business Group,
Wistron. “The value proposition for AMD’s EPYC CPU, particularly in
non-volatile memory storage applications, is a major
differentiator, and enables datacenter and enterprise customers to
achieve high IOPS and throughput storage solutions.”
Hardware Partner Support
Mellanox
“In a data-centric world, we need to be able to analyze growing
amounts of data and to be able to find data insights in real time.
The combination of the unmatched data throughput and capacity of
EPYC and the intelligent interconnect solutions from Mellanox will
enable our customers and partners to maximize their application
performance and overall data center return on investment.” said
Michael Kagan, chief technology officer at Mellanox Technologies.
“We are happy to be the preferred interconnect solution provider
for the AMD EPYC platforms and look forward to continuing to
collaborate with AMD and the OEM partners to enable world leading
data center platforms.”
Samsung Electronics
"Samsung, in continuing our ongoing collaboration with AMD, has
been working to deliver new leading-edge memory and flash storage
solutions that will be enhanced by EPYC," said Jim Elliott,
corporate vice president, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. "The
industry-leading memory bandwidth and the outstanding I/O capacity
delivered by EPYC enable Samsung and AMD to collectively offer an
exceptionally high level of performance and efficiency to data
center customers. Samsung solutions combined with the power of EPYC
are planned for later this year, offering an advanced platform for
in-memory database and analytics, High Performance Computing
workloads, and more."
Xilinx
“The launch of the AMD EPYC processor signifies an important
milestone in the industry,” said Victor Peng, chief operating
officer at Xilinx. “Together with Xilinx’s All Programmable
devices, the EPYC platform provides outstanding performance when
accelerating data center applications. We are also delighted to be
working with AMD in furthering open data center standards, such as
the CCIX interconnect, to provide the necessary heterogeneous
computing solutions for next generation workloads.”
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1. Score based on AMD internal testing
of 2 x EPYC 7601 CPU in, Supermicro AS-1123US-TR4, Ubuntu 16.04,
x86 Open64 v4.5.2.1 Compiler Suite, 512 GB (16 x 32 GB 2Rx4
PC4-2666) memory, 1 x 500 GB SSD. As of May 29, 2017. See
www.spec.org for more information. NAP-11
2. Score based on AMD internal testing
of 1 x EPYC 7601 CPU in HPE Cloudline CL3150, Ubuntu 16.04, x86
Open64 v4.5.2.1 Compiler Suite, 256 GB (8 x 32GB 2Rx4 PC4-2666)
memory, 1 x 500 GB SSD. Comparison excludes Intel Xeon Phi
accelerators. As of May 29, 2017. See www.spec.org for
more information. NAP-09
3. Score based on AMD internal testing
of 1 x EPYC 7601 CPU in HPE Cloudline CL3150, Ubuntu 16.04, x86
Open64 v4.5.2.1 Compiler Suite, 256 GB (8 x 32GB 2Rx4 PC4-2666)
memory, 1 x 500 GB SSD. As of May 29, 2017. See
www.spec.org for more information. NAP-10
4. Based on cost of 1 x EPYC 7601-based
(1 x $2100 AMD 1k price) system with 256 GB (8 x 32GB 2Rx4
PC4-2666) memory (8 x $300), 1 x 500 GB SSD ($165), and chassis
costs ($500) for a total system cost of $5,165; compared to 2 x
E5-2660 v4-based(2 x $1445) system with 256 GB (8 x 32GB 2Rx4
PC4-2666 running at 2133) memory (8 x $300), 1 x 500 GB SSD ($165),
and chassis costs ($500), plus Intel C612 chipset ($54 per
ark.intel.com), and additional socket (est. $35), Intel
Thermal Solution STS200P - processor heatsink ($34.99 per CDW), 12
FCI/Amphenol 10124677-0001001LF DIMM sockets ($5.18 each per
mouser.com), 5 x VRs (est. $3 each), power supply (est. $51), and
board, cooling and misc. components (est. $20), for a total system
cost of $6,228. NAP-08
5. Based on estimated
SPECint®_rate_base2006 scores. 2P Intel Xeon E5 scores other
than E5-2699Av4 were derived by AMD from the following ICC
compiler-based test results published at www.spec.org, multiplied
by 0.575 to convert from the ICC compiler to the GCC-02 v6.1
compiler used for EPYC testing: E5-2698v4=1620,
E5-2695v4=1440, E5-2680v4=1270, E5-2650v4=1000, E5-2640v4=865,
E5-2630v4=814, and E5-2620v4=683. The following EPYC 2P
scores are projections made by AMD labs (measured test data for
these pre-production products is not currently available):
EPYC 7301=845, EPYC 7281=760, and EPYC 7251=485. All other
scores based on AMD internal testing. 2P E5-2699A v4 in Intel
Server System R1208WT2GSR scored 943 on 6/5/2017, with Ubuntu
16.04, GCC-02 v6.3, 512 GB (16 x 32GB 2Rx4 PC4-2666 running at
2133), 1 x 500GB SSD. 2P EPYC 7601 in Supermicro
AS-1123US-TR4 scored 1390, with Ubuntu 16.04, GCC-02 v6.3, 512 GB
(16 x 32GB 2Rx4 PC4-2666 running at 2400), 1 x 500GB SSD. The
following EPYC 2P scores tested using AMD’s “Ethanol” reference
system with Ubuntu 16.04, GCC-02 v6.1, 512 GB (16x32GB 2Rx5
PC4-2667 running at 2400), 1 x 500GB SSD: EPYC 7551=1345,
EPYC 7451=1218, EPYC 7401=1120, EPYC 7351=939.
Pricing ranges based on Intel recommended customer pricing per
ark.intel.com, and AMD 1Ku pricing.
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