Rome
When it was announced that AMD was set to give a presentation at Hot Chips on its newest Zen 3 microarchitecture, I was expecting the usual fare when a company goes through an already announced platform – a series of slides that we had seen before. In the Zen 3 presentation this was largely the case, except for one snippet of information that had not been disclosed before. This bit of info is quite important for considering AMD’s growth strategy.
GIGABYTE Updates 4-GPU 2U G242 Server with Rome and PCIe4 for Ampere
As we wait for the big server juggernaut to support PCIe 4.0, a number of OEMs are busy creating AMD EPYC versions to fill that demand for high-speed connectivity...
14 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 8/6/2020
AMD Announces Ryzen Threadripper Pro: Workstation Parts for OEMs Only
Last year we spotted that AMD was in the market to hire a new lead product manager for a ‘workstation division’. This was a categorically different position to the...
76 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/14/2020
Google’s new Confidential Virtual Machines on 2nd Gen AMD EPYC
With AMD’s market share slowly increasing, it becomes very interesting to see where EPYC is being deployed. The latest announcement today comes from AMD and Google, with news that...
21 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 7/14/2020
AMD Scores First Top 10 Zen Supercomputer… at NVIDIA
One of the key metrics we’ve been waiting for since AMD launched its Zen architecture was when it would re-enter the top 10 supercomputer list. The previous best AMD...
47 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/22/2020_carousel.jpg)
ASRock Rack Offers Rome mATX Motherboard with only 6 Memory Channels
One of the items that makes a motherboard immediately standout is the amount of memory slots it has. For mainstream platforms, having two or four memory slots, for dual...
28 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/8/2020
Amazon Makes AMD Rome EC2 Instances Available
After many months of waiting, Amazon today has finally made available their new compute-oriented C5a AWS cloud instances based on the new AMD EPYC 2nd generation Rome processors with...
26 by Andrei Frumusanu on 6/5/2020
The Supermicro H11DSi Motherboard Mini-Review: The Sole Dual EPYC Solution
Users looking to build their own dual EPYC workstation or system, using completely off-the-shelf components, do not have a lot of options. Users can buy most of the CPUs...
37 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 5/13/2020
The ASRock Rack EPYCD8-2T Motherboard Review: From Naples to Rome
It's no secret that AMD is looking to carve out a bigger share in the server market with their enterprise EPYC processors, and much fanfare has been made about...
35 by Gavin Bonshor on 4/20/2020
AMD’s New EPYC 7F52 Reviewed: The F is for ᴴᴵᴳᴴ Frequency
Everyone wants a fast processor. The ability to get more stuff done is one of a number of guiding principles of business. However, business also needs consistency, safety and...
101 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 4/14/2020
AMD Expands EPYC Lineup with 64-Core EPYC 7662 & Large Cache EPYC 7532 CPUs
Today AMD has added two new processors into the EPYC lineup: the EPYC 7662, its fifth 64-core CPU for applications that need loads of cores, as well as the...
24 by Anton Shilov on 2/19/2020
TureMetal Builds a Fanless 32-Core EPYC PC with an RTX 2070
Turemetal, a maker of cases for fanless PCs, has published photos of a passively cooled system featuring an AMD EPYC processor and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 graphics card...
25 by Anton Shilov on 12/30/2019
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X Review: 24 and 32 Cores on 7nm
One of the constant themes of 2019 has been to ask AMD employees about the future of its Threadripper line of products. Since the start of the year we’ve...
245 by Dr. Ian Cutress, Andrei Frumusanu & Gavin Bonshor on 11/25/2019
AMD Pre-Announces 64-core Threadripper 3990X: Time To Open Your Wallet
Ever since AMD announced its latest enterprise platform, Rome, and the EPYC 7002 series, one question that high-end desktop users have been wondering is when the 64-core hardware will...
52 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/25/2019
AMD May Be Prepping More 280 W EPYC Enterprise CPUs
Back in September, AMD announced its 64-core EPYC 7H12 processor - a 280 W TDP behemoth with an increased base frequency designed specifically for the high-performance computing market. Based...
22 by Anton Shilov on 10/21/2019
Lenovo Launches ThinkSystem SR635 & SR655 Servers with AMD’s EPYC ‘Rome’ CPUs
Lenovo on Wednesday introduced its first servers based on AMD’s EPYC 7002-series ‘Rome’ processors, which offer up to 64 cores and 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes. The single-socket ThinkSystem SR635...
13 by Anton Shilov on 8/8/2019
AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked
If you examine the CPU industry and ask where the big money is, you have to look at the server and datacenter market. Ever since the Opteron days, AMD's...
184 by Johan De Gelas on 8/7/2019
The AMD 2nd Gen EPYC "Rome" Launch Live Blog
The second – and arguably largest – shoe in the Zen 2 launch is dropping today: AMD’s EPYC 7002-series “Rome” processor. Based on all the things that made 3rd...
30 by Ryan Smith on 8/7/2019
An Interview with AMD’s Forrest Norrod: Naples, Rome, Milan, & Genoa
There’s no getting away from the fact that AMD’s big revenue potential exists in the server space. While the glitz and the glamor is all about the Ryzen, the...
49 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/24/2019
AMD Zen 2 Microarchitecture Analysis: Ryzen 3000 and EPYC Rome
We have been teased with AMD’s next generation processor products for over a year. The new chiplet design has been heralded as a significant breakthrough in driving performance and...
218 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 6/10/2019
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