AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) announced the expansion of its global ecosystem of
partners for its EPYC datacenter processors today at the China EPYC
Technology Summit. New datacenter customers – Tencent and JD.com –
along with OEM partners Lenovo and Sugon, joined AMD on-stage with
new product announcements and to showcase a wide range of systems
and performance demonstrations.
“Today we celebrate the AMD EPYC family of CPUs for the
datacenter market in China and are excited to announce support from
the leading cloud service providers, Tencent and JD.com, while
continuing momentum from Baidu, Lenovo and Sugon,” said Forrest
Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Enterprise,
Embedded and Semi-Custom products, AMD. “The AMD EPYC family of
processors provides incredible performance and scalability for the
workloads that matter today and in the future. By partnering with
these market leaders, AMD is bringing choice and competition to one
of the fastest growing technology markets in the world.”
Additional ecosystem participation at the Summit came from Acer,
Asus, Dell, Fiberhome, Gigabyte, HPE, H3C, INVENTEC, Lenovo, Sugon,
SuperCloud, SuperMicro, TYAN, and Wistron. Key server hardware and
software ecosystem support was provided by partners including
Mellanox, Redhat, Samsung and VMware.
Cloud Datacenters Choose EPYC
"Tencent Cloud provides public services to benefit everyone.
With our commitment to offer users with more choice and a more
convenient user experience, Tencent Cloud is continuously seeking
more cores, more I/O interfaces, more secure hardware features and
improved total cost of ownership for server hardware products,"
said Sage Zou, senior director of Tencent Cloud. "To continue as a
leading provider of high-performance and high-value cloud services,
Tencent needs to adopt the most advanced infrastructure and the
chip industry's latest achievements. By the end of this year,
Tencent Cloud will launch AMD EPYC-based 2P cloud servers, with up
to 64 processor cores and superior single system computing
capability, to provide the industry with a more diverse portfolio
of cloud products and services.”
“China Internet and e-commerce companies need more compute cores
and higher memory bandwidth. We saw AMD EPYC processors have up to
32 cores, providing competitive advantage over current 2P server
systems, and the eight memory channels enable greater memory
bandwidth, which are believed to better match domestic customers’
requirements," said Andrew Wang, technology leader of hardware
system department at JD.com. “AMD EPYC will help JD.com improve the
total cost of ownership (TCO) of our server systems. JD.com will
collaborate with AMD on Big Data, AI and Cloud Services based on
AMD EPYC in the future.”
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“As a strategic partner, Sugon and AMD have been working
together for more than 15 years, AMD's new EPYC data center
processors will bring a new value experience in the datacenter,”
said Cao Zhennan, vice president of Sugon. “Sugon will introduce
full AMD EPYC processor based product line with nine new products
across workstation, rack, blade and super rack systems for
high-performance computing, cloud computing, large data analysis
and deep learning applications today.”
“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.
EPYC Performance
The excitement around EPYC is driven by its competitive x86
performance in both one-socket and two-socket configurations,
including record setting floating point performance.
One-Socket Server
- AMD EPYC™ 7601-based system scored 1200 on integer performance
measured using SPECint®_rate2006, landing in the top four of x86
systems tested to-date1
- AMD EPYC 7601-based system set a record for one-socket floating
point performance, scoring 943 on SPECfp®_rate20062
Two-Socket Server
- AMD EPYC 7601-based system scored 2360 on SPECint®_rate2006,
placing it in the upper tier of registered scores to-date.3
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).
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
eight channels of memory on every EPYC processor. In a two-socket
server, support for up to 32 DIMMS of DDR4 on 16 memory channels,
delivering up to four 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
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- 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
Aug. 23, 2017. See www.spec.org for more information.
NAP-09
- 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
Aug. 23, 2017. See www.spec.org for more information.
NAP-10
- 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 Aug. 23, 2017. See www.spec.org for more
information. NAP-11
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