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A detailed look at AMD’s new Epyc “Rome” 7nm server CPUs

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Geekz Snow
A detailed look at AMD’s new Epyc “Rome” 7nm server CPUs

Once third-party results confirmed AMD's outstanding benchmarks and retail delivery was a success, the big remaining question was: could the company extend its 7nm success story to mobile and server CPUs?

Yesterday, AMD formally launched its new line of Epyc 7002 "Rome" series CPUs—and it seems to have answered the server half of that question pretty thoroughly.

Rome offers far more CPU threads per socket than Intel's Xeon Scalable CPUs do.

While it's easy to complain that Intel CPUs have an unfair advantage in MKL-DNN benchmarks, it is representative of the kind of entrenched advantage Intel enjoys—and it's a real advantage.

On vendor-neutral and multithreading-friendly workloads such as x265 video and OpenSSL, the Rome CPUs significantly outperformed the Xeons across the board.

In the past, that sharp delta in cost efficiency has forced a project to seriously consider putting up with added machine count and more complex overall architecture.

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