AMD EPYC based offering provides
best-in-class price/performance advantage for Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure customers
Today at Oracle OpenWorld 2018, AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the
availability of the first AMD EPYC™ processor-based instance
on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. With this announcement, Oracle
becomes the largest public cloud provider to have a Bare Metal
version on AMD EPYC™ processors1. The AMD EPYC processor-based
“E” series will lead with the bare metal, Standard “E2”, available
immediately as the first instance type within the Series. At
$0.03/Core hour, the AMD EPYC instance is up to 66 percent less on
average per core than general purpose instances offered by the
competition2 and is the most cost-effective instance available on
any public cloud.
“With the launch of the AMD instance, Oracle has once again
demonstrated that we are focused on getting the best value and
performance to our customers,” said Clay Magouyrk, senior vice
president, software development, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. “At
greater than 269 GB/Sec, the AMD EPYC platform3, offers the highest
memory bandwidth of any public cloud instance. Combined with
increased performance, these cost advantages help customers
maximize their IT dollars as they make the move to the cloud.”
In addition to the bare metal offering, today’s release also
features the one, two, four and eight core VM Shapes. The new
offering takes advantage of the industry leading core count, memory
bandwidth, I/O capability4,5,6, as well as advanced security
features that come with the AMD EPYC processor. While ideal for
general purpose cloud computing workloads, the offering also
supports Oracle applications.
“We are delighted that Oracle is adding AMD EPYC processors to
its cloud offerings. The EPYC processor provides more cores, more
memory bandwidth, and outstanding stability. That translates into
leadership TCO for cloud deployments2. It is a perfect fit for
Oracle customers running their business applications in the cloud,”
said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager,
Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Business Group, AMD. “Our work
with Oracle highlights how the EPYC processors’ unique design
offers cloud users a significant price/performance advantage.”
With 64 cores per server and up to 33 percent more memory
channels than comparable x86 instances4 the Standard E2 instance is
ideally suited for data analytics workloads that demand higher
cores and memory bandwidth. Within the Hadoop ecosystem, AMD has
partnerships with many of the leading providers including Cloudera,
Hortonworks, MapR and Transwarp. On a complete 10TB Terasort run
the AMD instance demonstrated up to 40 percent savings in cost per
Terasort as compared to other x86 instances7.
Within the HPC space, the higher memory bandwidth of the EPYC
instance makes it a great fit for customer use cases around weather
modeling, computational fluid dynamics, simulation and crash
analysis in aviation and automotive manufacturing, and oil and gas
exploration. On a 14M cell Fluent CFD (computational fluid
dynamics) simulation on a winged aircraft solved on 4 Nodes, the
EPYC processor-based instance demonstrated up to a 30 percent
reduction in total cost, coupled with reduction in overall run
times.8
These instances are generally available in Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure’s U.S. East-Ashburn region today, London by the end
of October, and will be available in other U.S. and European
regions by the end of the year.
Additional Resources
- Oracle X7 powered by AMD EPYC
- AMD EPYC on AMD.com
- Follow AMD datacenter developments on
Twitter @AMDServer
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About Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure is an enterprise Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
platform. Companies of all sizes rely on Oracle Cloud to run
enterprise and cloud native applications with mission-critical
performance and core-to-edge security. By running both traditional
and new workloads on a comprehensive cloud that includes compute,
storage, networking, database, and containers, Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure can dramatically increase operational efficiency and
lower total cost of ownership. For more information,
visit https://cloud.oracle.com/iaas.
1 Statement of Oracle as largest provider of bare metal
cloud services has not been independently verified by AMD.
2 AMD EPYC processor-powered Oracle instances are priced at
$0.03 / Core Hour versus prices ranging from $0.06 to $0.1 for
competing instances based on Intel from the major cloud
providers. The average core hour pricing for general purpose
instances across the major cloud providers is $0.09. The
Oracle AMD pricing represents a 65% lower cost per core hour for
comparable or better performance. These results have not been
independently verified by AMD.
3 Oracle benchmark results. A Stream Triad result of 269.11 GB/s
was obtained for OCI shape BM.Standard.E2.64 using 16 cores -- two
cores per shared 8MB L3 cache (or CCX). The AMD wrapper with their
optimized binary and no huge pages was used to obtain this result.
These results have not been independently verified by AMD.
4 AMD EPYC™ 7601 processor offers up to 14% more CPU cores than
an Intel Xeon Platinum 8180-based system. NAP-43
5 AMD EPYC™ 7601 processor offers up to 33% greater memory
bandwidth than the Intel Xeon Platinum 8180. NAP-44
6 AMD EPYC™ offers up to [2.6X the /1.6X better] I/O
density in a single socket configuration than an Intel® Xeon® SP
Series Processor. NAP-56
7 Oracle benchmark results based upon Oracle Bare Metal Standard
instance (BM.Standard 2.52). AMD 2x AMD EPYC 7551, 32 cores
per Socket @ 2.0 GHz, 512 GB DDR4 Memory, 2 x 26 G Network, Up to 1
PB of remote block Storage. Versus Oracle Intel powered bare
metal instance with 2 x Intel Skylake processors, 26 cores per
Socket @ 2.0 GHz, 786 GB DDR4 Memory, 2 x 25 G Network, Up to 1 PB
of remote block memory. These results have not been independently
verified by AMD.
8 Oracle benchmark results based upon Oracle Bare Metal Standard
instance (BM.Standard 2.52). AMD 2x AMD EPYC 7551, 32 cores
per Socket @ 2.0 GHz, 512 GB DDR4 Memory, 2 x 26 G Network, Up to 1
PB of remote block Storage. Versus Oracle Intel powered bare
metal instance with 2 x Intel Skylake processors, 26 cores per
Socket @ 2.0 GHz, 786 GB DDR4 Memory, 2 x 25 G Network, Up to 1 PB
of remote block memory. These results have not been independently
verified by AMD. These results have not been independently verified
by AMD.
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Cautionary Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements
concerning Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) including the
collaboration with Oracle Cloud Services throughout 2018, the
features, functionality, availability, and timing on products, and
expected benefits of the collaboration between AMD and Oracle Cloud
Services, which are made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions of
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
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Investors are cautioned that the forward-looking statements in this
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expectations, speak only as of the date of this document and
involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to
differ materially from current expectations. Such statements are
subject to certain known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many
of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond AMD's
control, that could cause actual results and other future events to
differ materially from those expressed in, or implied or projected
by, the forward-looking information and statements. Material
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
current expectations include, without limitation, the following:
Intel Corporation’s dominance of the microprocessor market and its
aggressive business practices may limit AMD’s ability to compete
effectively; AMD has a wafer supply agreement with GF with
obligations to purchase all of its microprocessor and APU product
requirements, and a certain portion of its GPU product
requirements, from GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. (GF) with limited
exceptions. If GF is not able to satisfy AMD’s manufacturing
requirements, its business could be adversely impacted; AMD relies
on third parties to manufacture its products, and if they are
unable to do so on a timely basis in sufficient quantities and
using competitive technologies, AMD’s business could be materially
adversely affected; failure to achieve expected manufacturing
yields for AMD’s products could negatively impact its financial
results; the success of AMD’s business is dependent upon its
ability to introduce products on a timely basis with features and
performance levels that provide value to its customers while
supporting and coinciding with significant industry transitions; if
AMD cannot generate sufficient revenue and operating cash flow or
obtain external financing, it may face a cash shortfall and be
unable to make all of its planned investments in research and
development or other strategic investments; the loss of a
significant customer may have a material adverse effect on AMD;
AMD’s receipt of revenue from its semi-custom SoC products is
dependent upon its technology being designed into third-party
products and the success of those products; global economic
uncertainty may adversely impact AMD’s business and operating
results; the markets in which AMD’s products are sold are highly
competitive; AMD may not be able to generate sufficient cash to
service its debt obligations or meet its working capital
requirements; AMD has a large amount of indebtedness which could
adversely affect its financial position and prevent it from
implementing its strategy or fulfilling its contractual
obligations; the agreements governing AMD’s notes and the Secured
Revolving Line of Credit impose restrictions on AMD that may
adversely affect its ability to operate its business; AMD's
issuance to West Coast Hitech L.P. (WCH) of warrants to purchase 75
million shares of its common stock, if and when exercised, will
dilute the ownership interests of its existing stockholders, and
the conversion of the 2.125% Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 may
dilute the ownership interest of its existing stockholders, or may
otherwise depress the price of its common stock; uncertainties
involving the ordering and shipment of AMD’s products could
materially adversely affect it; the demand for AMD’s products
depends in part on the market conditions in the industries into
which they are sold. Fluctuations in demand for AMD’s products or a
market decline in any of these industries could have a material
adverse effect on its results of operations; AMD’s ability to
design and introduce new products in a timely manner is dependent
upon third-party intellectual property; AMD depends on third-party
companies for the design, manufacture and supply of motherboards,
software and other computer platform components to support its
business; if AMD loses Microsoft Corporation’s support for its
products or other software vendors do not design and develop
software to run on AMD’s products, its ability to sell its products
could be materially adversely affected; and AMD’s reliance on
third-party distributors and AIB partners subjects it to certain
risks. Investors are urged to review in detail the risks and
uncertainties in AMD's Securities and Exchange Commission filings,
including but not limited to AMD's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended September 30, 2017.
PR Contact:
Gary Silcott
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Gary.Silcott@amd.com
Investor Contact:
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