Artificial intelligence and the increasing demand for computing power have driven the development of GPU accelerators, but CPU processors still have an irreplaceable place in the world of AI hardware. In terms of computing performance, CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs have their own characteristics and disadvantages, and it is necessary to select the most suitable hardware according to the most suitable scenarios.
AMD EPYC processors are outstanding in the data center market, whether in high-performance computing, edge computing, artificial intelligence, cloud services, 5G communication infrastructure, virtualization and other capabilities. Compared with Intel Xeon processors, AMD EPYC has obvious advantages in computing density, performance, efficiency, and AI performance.
On November 11, 2022, the Genoa EPYC 9004 series processors were officially born, reaching the highest level of performance and efficiency in the industry. At the same time, Intel Xeon processor's *** product, Sapphire Rapids, has bounced many times, and its speed and performance are far from the Genoa EPYC.
The new 5nm manufacturing process, ZEN 4 architecture, chiplet chip layout, 96 cores and 192 threads, 384MB massive** cache, 44GHz boost frequency, 12 channels of DDR5 memory, 128 PCIe 5Features such as the 0 bus make the GENOA EPYC the obvious choice on the market.
In addition to the GENOA EPYC series, AMD also launched the EPYC 97x4 series (Bergamo), which focuses on the cloud-native market with a more energy-efficient ZEN 4C architectureThe EPYC 9084x series (GENOA-X) provides top-of-the-line computing power by integrating high-capacity, high-speed, 3D V-Cache stacked cachesThe soon-to-be-released Siena series focuses on edge computing, etc., and is also very energy efficient.
It is worth mentioning that the EPYC 97x4 series adopts a "homogeneous small core" design, doubling the number of cores to 128, thus having the highest core density in the industry. However, the Zen 4C architecture does not simply and rudely emasculate functions and performance in order to increase the number of cores, it has exactly the same manufacturing process and architecture design as Zen 4, and it is 100% consistent in both the X86 ISA instruction set and the IPC theoretical performance.
In terms of actual performance, EPYC processors are ahead of Intel Xeon processors in terms of cloud service performance, enterprise computing performance, energy efficiency, and AI performance. In addition, the EPYC processor is also quite cost-effective.
In short, in the era of AI, the role of CPU processors has not been weakened in the slightest, but has become more powerful. AMD EPYC processors are the go-to product in the market due to their powerful performance and power efficiency. With the development of semiconductor technology, there will be greater breakthroughs in processors in the future, providing more powerful computing power support for applications such as artificial intelligence. Look for an AI Writer Program