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Supercharge your business applications with new 2nd Generation AMD EPYC processors

raghu_nambiar
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I introduced the 2nd Generation of AMD EPYC ™ and its world record capabilities for the data center ecosystem when we launched the 2nd Gen in this blog. Now, continuing the legacy of choice without restriction, the next set of AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors brings the world’s highest per-core performance x86 server CPU*. With a balanced architecture, the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ 7Fx2 processors increase the boost and max frequencies by 500MHz. That, combined with the industry's most robust L3 cache per core ratio, enables applications to optimize each SoC's core capabilities. Make the most of your software investment - especially if paying on a per-core or per-job basis.  

 

Designed to redefine the modern data center, the new processors bring leadership per-core performance for enterprise workloads in hyperconverged infrastructure, commercial HPC, and relational databases. The 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ Processors deliver World Record performance on many industry-standard benchmarks and bring performance leadership into the following areas:

  • Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Supported by industry-leading platforms such as Nutanix® and VMWare® vSAN™, the new AMD EPYC™ 7Fx2 processors enable groundbreaking performance for HCI. Nutanix announced that Nutanix HCI software would support select AMD EPYC based HPE ProLiant servers by May, and the upcoming availability of AMD EPYC 7Fx2 processors on DX platforms in Q3. The popular infrastructure benchmark, VMMark 3.1 running on vSAN, scored 13.27 at 14 tiles (collection of VMs) using the new 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ 7F72 Processor – a world record performance for 4-node, 8-socket clusters that are 47% higher than the next closest competition using 25% fewer cores. Here is a link to the results. 
  • Relational Database Management Systems: Process mission-critical workloads for modern enterprises. High-performance CPUs, massive memory footprint, and industry-leading I/O enable high performance for transactional (OLTP) and Decision Support System (DSS) performance. Our internal tests show Relational Database Management Systems like Oracle® Database 19c and Microsoft SQL Server® 2019 perform significantly better than other comparable industry CPUs. AMD EPYC and its ecosystem partners offer jointly engineered solutions for big data workloads. With a large cache per core, ample memory capacity and bandwidth, and massive I/O combine in the right ratios of the EPYC 7002 series processors help enable breakthrough performance. For example, the EPYC 7Fx2 processor sets a new overall world record on an industry-standard Internet-of-Things benchmark.
  • High Performance Computing: Many high-performance computing (HPC) workloads require a balance between performance and per-core license costs to manage overall costs. AMD EPYC processors offer a consistent set of features across the product line, allowing you to optimize the number of cores required for the workload without sacrificing features like memory channels, memory capacity, or I/O lanes. Regardless of the number of physical cores per socket, you will have support for eight channels of up to DDR4-3200 MHz memory per processor across all processors. This exceptional memory bandwidth paired with large cache per core helps you get the most out of your system by optimizing execution time and overall utilization of your deployment. In AMD Performance Labs, we tested Ansys® CFX® 2019 R1 and across five test cases, we saw an average per-core performance gain of 94% on the 16-core EPYC 7F52 compared to 16-core Intel® Xeon®Gold 6242. Other testing completed includes LSTC LS-Dyna® Ansys®Fluent®, Dassault Systèmes® Abaqus, Altair Radioss™ OpenFoam®, and WRF as a few examples of HPC applications that can benefit from the new EPYC 7Fx2 processors.

 

With the AMD EPYC 7Fx2 processors, AMD EPYC CPUs continue to be the new standard for business applications in enterprise data centers and maintain an exceptional focus on real-world outcomes and balanced architecture. At AMD, we are committed to continuing our journey of innovative leadership. A journey focused on bringing the leadership performance and total cost of ownership across key application areas in your data center.

 

We are grateful to our partners who have collaborated with our engineers for a wide range of data center use cases by engineering solutions that help deliver high performance and efficiency at a lower total cost of ownership:

Altair, Ansys, Asrock, Asus, Atos, AWS, Baidu AI Cloud, Beamr, Broadcom, Cadence, Canonical, Ceph, Cisco, Citrix, Cloudera, Cloudflare, Couchbase, Cray, Datastax, Dassault Systèmes, DellEMC, Docker, Dropbox, Elastic, Ericsson, ESI, Excelero, Foxconn, Gigabyte, Google, H3C, Hadoop, Hetzner, Hortonworks, HPE, IBM Cloud, Inventec, Java, Lenovo, LSTC, MapR, MarkLogic, Mavenir, Mellanox, MemSQL, Mentor, Micron, Microsoft, Microfocus | Vertica, MongoDB, Netscout, Nokia, Nutanix, NVIDIA, Oracle, OVH, Packet, PGS, PostgreSQL, QCT, Quobyte, Redislabs, Rehat, Samsung, SAP, SAS, ScaleMP, Seagate, Siemens, Simplivity, SKhynix, Splunk, SQL Server, Stormagic, Supermicro, SUSE, Synopsys, Tencent Cloud, Transwarp, Tyan, VMware, Weka.io, Western Digital, Wistron, Wiwynn, Xilinx.

 

Raghu Nambiar is a CVP of Datacenter Ecosystems & Application Engineering for AMD. His postings are his own opinions and may not represent AMD’s positions, strategies or opinions. Links to third party sites or use of third party names/marks are provided for convenience and unless explicitly stated, AMD is not responsible for the contents of such linked sites and no endorsement is implied.

 

ENDNOTES

*EPYC 7F32

  1. 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors used on motherboards designed for the 1st Gen AMD EPYC processor require a BIOS update from your server manufacturer.  The EPYC 7742, 7642 and 7542 are 225w parts and require additional updates, contact your server manufacturer for support. For PCIe®4 and DDR4-3200 memory support, please contact your server manufacturer. A motherboard designed for 2nd Gen EPYC processors is required to enable all available functionality. ROM-06a
  2. EPYC™002 series has 8-memory channels, supporting 3200 MHz DIMMs yielding 204.8 GB/s of bandwidth vs. the same class of Intel Scalable Gen 2 processors with only 6-memory channels and supporting 2933 MHz DIMMs yielding 140.8 GB/s of bandwidth. 204.8 / 140.8 = 1.454545 - 1.0 = .45 or 45% more. AMD EPYC has 45% more bandwidth. Class based on industry-standard pin-based (LGA) X86 processors. ROM-11
  3. For a complete list of world records, see http://amd.com/worldrecords. ROM-169
  4. Each 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors support up to 4TB of DRAM. Intel Scalable Platinum 8200 and lower series processors can support up to 2TB of DRAM per ark.intel.com, July 9, 2019. Class based on industry-standard pin-based (LGA) X86 processors. ROM-265
  5. Based on AMD internal testing of ANSYS® CFX®2019 R1 running Release 14.0 test cases as of 3/24/2020 on a 2x EPYC 7F52 (16C) powered reference server versus a 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6242 (16C) powered server. Results may vary. ROM-590
  6. AMD EPYC™ 7F32 with 8-cores and 128MB of L3 cache has ~3.6x more L3 cache per core than the next highest competitive same core-count CPU from Intel, the Intel®Xeon® Gold 6250 processor with 8-cores and 35.75MB of L3 cache. 128 / 35.75 = 3.5804 or ~3.6x the L3 cache or ~2.6x more L3 cache per core. ROM-604
  7. 47% higher score amd 56% more tiles (VMs) based on VMmark® 3.1 vSAN™comparing 2x EPYC 7F72 scoring 13.27 @ 14 tiles (266 VMs), https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2020-04-14-DellEMC-PowerEdg... compared to the next highest competitive result on 2x Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8276L scoring 9.00 @ 9 tiles (171 VMs), https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/vmmark/2019-08-12-Hitachi-UCPHC-V1...). 47% higher score = 13.27/9 = 1.474x the score and 56% more tiles (VMs) = 14/9=1.555x the tiles (VMs) as of 4/14/20. VMmark® is a product of VMware, Inc. ROM-639
  8. Best published TPC®Express Benchmark IoT Overall world record result as of 04/01/20. Configuration: 2nd Gen EPYC™ 7F72 powered server with 4-nodes, 1-socket scoring 2480917.6 IoTps ($0.18 USD/IoTps, avail 4/14/20, tpc.org/####). The next highest published score is on a 2nd Gen EPYC™ 7502P powered server with 4-nodes, 1-socket scoring 2199052.90 IoTps ($0.20 USD/IoTps, avail 3/30/20, http://www.tpc.org/5758). TPC, TPC Benchmark and TPC-C are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council. ROM-626
About the Author
Raghu Nambiar is the Corporate Vice President of Datacenter Ecosystems and Solutions at AMD. In this role, he leads engineering teams and their collaboration with ecosystem partners. Raghu has more than 20 years of technology industry experience across a number of engineering organizations. He was previously the CTO of the Cisco UCS business and played an instrumental role in accelerating the growth of the Cisco UCS to a top data center compute platform. He has spent his entire career working on software and hardware ecosystems for data centers, both on in research and business use cases.