New processors deliver exceptional energy efficiency and strong performance in an optimized, single-socket package supported by Dell Technologies, Ericsson, Lenovo, Supermicro and others, and validated for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announ­ced avai­la­bi­li­ty of the new AMD EPYC™ 8004 Series pro­ces­sors, com­ple­ting the 4^th Gen AMD EPYC CPU fami­ly of workload-opti­mi­zed pro­ces­sors. The­se new pro­ces­sors bring the “Zen 4c” core into a pur­po­se-built CPU, enab­ling hard­ware pro­vi­ders to crea­te ener­gy effi­ci­ent and dif­fe­ren­tia­ted plat­forms that can power appli­ca­ti­ons from the intel­li­gent edge, such as retail, manu­fac­tu­ring and tel­co, all the way to the data cen­ter for cloud ser­vices, sto­rage and others.

“The new EPYC 8004 Series pro­ces­sors extend AMD lea­der­ship in sin­gle socket plat­forms by offe­ring excel­lent CPU ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy in a packa­ge tun­ed to meet the needs of space and power-cons­trai­ned infra­struc­tu­re,” said Dan McNa­ma­ra, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Ser­ver Busi­ness, AMD. “AMD has deli­ver­ed mul­ti­ple gene­ra­ti­ons of data cen­ter pro­ces­sors that pro­vi­de out­stan­ding effi­ci­en­cy, per­for­mance, and inno­va­ti­ve fea­tures. Now with our 4th Gen EPYC CPU port­fo­lio com­ple­te, that lea­der­ship con­ti­nues across a broad set of workloads – from enter­pri­se and cloud, to intel­li­gent edge, tech­ni­cal com­pu­ting and more.”

Deli­ve­ring Effi­ci­en­cy and Per­for­mance for Tra­di­tio­nal Data Cen­ters and Intel­li­gent Edge
AMD EPYC 8004 series pro­ces­sors extend the lea­der­ship per­for­mance and effi­ci­en­cy of the 4^th Gen EPYC fami­ly to mar­kets that seek strong per­for­mance, but also have signi­fi­cant requi­re­ments for ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy, plat­form den­si­ty and quiet ope­ra­ti­ons. With the AMD EPYC 8004 series pro­ces­sors, cus­to­mers and part­ners can expect:

• Excel­lent Ener­gy Effi­ci­en­cy for the Intel­li­gent Edge. Uti­li­zing the effi­ci­ent “Zen 4c” core and new SP6 socket which brings stream­li­ned memo­ry and I/O fea­tures the EPYC 8004 series pro­ces­sor can pro­vi­de up to 2x bet­ter SPEC­power® per­for­mance per sys­tem watt advan­ta­ge com­pared to the competition’s top net­wor­king modelⁱ.
• Balan­ced Per­for­mance. In an indus­try that demands the ulti­ma­te per­for­mance per watt capa­bi­li­ties for space and infra­struc­tu­re cons­trai­ned envi­ron­ments, the AMD EPYC 8004 series pro­ces­sors deli­ver the balan­ced per­for­mance and excel­lent ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy nee­ded at the edge. In a video enco­ding workload, the EPYC 8534P pro­vi­des up to 2.4x the aggre­ga­te frames/hour/system watt against the competition’s com­pa­ra­ble net­wor­king pro­ductⁱⁱ. In an IoT Edge gate­way workload an eight core EPYC 8024P powered ser­ver can pro­vi­de ~1.8x the total through­put per­for­mance per 8kW rack, com­pared to the competition’s eight core pro­ces­sor.ⁱⁱⁱ
• Opti­mi­zing Savings for Intel­li­gent Edge Deploy­ments. Intel­li­gent edge deploy­ments focus on smal­ler nodes of ser­vers, rather than full racks as expec­ted within a data cen­ter. In an intel­li­gent edge deploy­ment of one, three or 10 ser­vers, ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy of an AMD EPYC 8004 series pro­ces­sor-based ser­ver, com­pared to the com­pe­ti­ti­on, can poten­ti­al­ly save cus­to­mers thou­sands of dol­lars in ener­gy cos­ts over a five year peri­od, with bet­ter core den­si­ty and more through­put.^iv

A Robust and Inno­va­ti­ve Ecosystem
Addi­tio­nal­ly, num­e­rous OEMs and part­ners unvei­led a num­ber of uni­que sys­tems and solu­ti­ons that take full advan­ta­ge of the AMD EPYC 8004 series pro­ces­sor capa­bi­li­ties to work in a broad ope­ra­ting ran­ge for power and tem­pe­ra­tu­re needs, sup­port­ing deploy­ments in den­se data cen­ters, to city tel­co buil­dings, to extre­me phy­si­cal envi­ron­ments like fac­to­ry floors.

Dell Tech­no­lo­gies released the Dell PowerEdge C6615 ser­ver. This system’s effi­ci­ent form-fac­tor opti­mi­zes high per­for­mance with low TCO for sca­le out workloads, like con­tai­ners and microservices.

“The Dell PowerEdge C6615 with AMD EPYC Gen4 CPUs is pur­po­se-built to deli­ver our best per­for­mance per watt, per dol­lar in a den­si­ty-opti­mi­zed form fac­tor,” said Tra­vis Vigil, seni­or vice pre­si­dent, pro­duct manage­ment, Infra­struc­tu­re Solu­ti­ons Group, Dell Tech­no­lo­gies. “The solu­ti­on is engi­nee­red to maxi­mi­ze com­pu­te per­for­mance in air-coo­led envi­ron­ments wit­hout having to alter power or coo­ling capa­bi­li­ties. When com­bi­ned with Dell Open­Ma­na­ge Enter­pri­se soft­ware, we enable cloud ser­vice pro­vi­ders to intel­li­gent­ly moni­tor their sys­tems and deli­ver more effi­ci­ent com­pu­te services.”

With the AMD EPYC 8004 series pro­ces­sors, Erics­son sees a Cloud RAN com­pu­ta­ti­on acce­le­ra­ti­on solu­ti­on that can suc­cessful­ly mana­ge the immense traf­fic growth and levera­ge mobi­le net­works in an ener­gy effi­ci­ent and per­for­mant man­ner. The core den­si­ty and AVX512 capa­bi­li­ties of the pro­ces­sors also enable the capa­ci­ty to hand­le the traf­fic pro­files of a hea­vy loa­ded site with both FDD and TDD spectrum.

“Erics­son is stead­fast in the pur­su­it of dri­ving Open RAN for­ward, dri­ven by our com­mit­ment to con­stant­ly deve­lo­ping cut­ting-edge solu­ti­ons through clo­se col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with our part­ners and cus­to­mers,” said Mår­ten Ler­ner, Head of Cloud RAN, Erics­son. “Through our stra­te­gic col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with AMD, Erics­son sees this launch as a key step­ping­s­tone in our relent­less jour­ney to acce­le­ra­te Cloud RAN tech­no­lo­gy in are­as like ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy, enhan­ced per­for­mance and high-capa­ci­ty solu­ti­ons. As well, this enables us to offer choices for our cus­to­mers on their Cloud RAN jour­ney, while brin­ging addi­tio­nal fle­xi­bi­li­ty to Cloud RAN deploy­ments, with the goal of enhan­cing per­for­mance and secu­ring high-capa­ci­ty solu­ti­ons to meet the high demands of deli­ve­ring 5G con­nec­ti­vi­ty and beyond.”

Leno­vo announ­ced its newest flag­ship edge-opti­mi­zed ser­ver, the new Leno­vo Thin­kEdge SE455 V3, which deli­vers the most ener­gy effi­ci­ent ser­ver available for enab­ling next gene­ra­ti­on AI appli­ca­ti­ons at the edge and pro­vi­des best-in-class per­for­mance, sto­rage and expan­da­bili­ty that is cri­ti­cal for sup­port­ing lar­ge and deman­ding edge AI workloads.

“Leno­vo con­ti­nues to push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble at the edge with ground­brea­king inno­va­ti­on and design that deli­vers AI direct­ly to your place of busi­ness,” said Charles Fer­land, Vice Pre­si­dent and Gene­ral Mana­ger of Edge Com­pu­ting and Tele­com at Leno­vo. “The Leno­vo Thin­kEdge SE455 V3 harnes­ses the cut­ting-edge per­for­mance of the new AMD EPYC 8004 series pro­ces­sor to deli­ver unmat­ched com­pu­ting per­for­mance and effi­ci­en­cy at the edge, unlo­cking data intel­li­gence and enab­ling next-gene­ra­ti­on AI appli­ca­ti­ons while lowe­ring power con­sump­ti­on in a com­pact, quiet design that works dis­creet­ly even in the most chal­len­ging remo­te setting.”

Micro­soft Azu­re high­ligh­ted their exci­te­ment for the EPYC 8004 series pro­ces­sors: “We are plea­sed about the launch of AMD EPYC 8004 Series pro­ces­sors. Cus­to­mers run­ning Micro­soft Azu­re ser­vices at the edge in indus­tries like retail and manu­fac­tu­ring will bene­fit great­ly from the uni­que power, per­for­mance, and envi­ron­men­tal capa­bi­li­ties that the EPYC 8004 Series pro­vi­des,” said Ber­nar­do Cal­das, CVP, Azu­re Edge PM. “We look for­ward to part­ne­ring with AMD and OEM part­ners to bring the­se new solu­ti­ons to market.”

Super­mi­cro intro­du­ced new edge plat­forms using AMD EPYC 8004 series pro­ces­sors. Based on the Super­mi­cro H13 gene­ra­ti­on of WIO Ser­vers, the­se plat­forms are opti­mi­zed to deli­ver strong per­for­mance and ener­gy effi­ci­en­cy for edge and tel­co data centers.

“The new AMD EPYC 8004 series pro­ces­sors in Super­mi­cro stan­dard rack mount and NEBS-com­pli­ant short-depth sys­tems are ide­al for diver­se workloads,” said Vik Malya­la, pre­si­dent, EMEA, seni­or vice pre­si­dent, WW FAE, solu­ti­ons and busi­ness. “Impro­ved per­for­mance per core, lower TDP, and exten­ded life­cy­cle sup­port from the­se pro­ces­sors com­bi­ned with Supermicro’s inno­va­ti­ve and ener­gy-effi­ci­ent ser­vers with AC/DC power opti­ons offer supe­ri­or value for our cus­to­mers and extend sup­port for intel­li­gent edge and next-gene­ra­ti­on Tel­co markets.”

AMD EPYC 8004 Series Pro­ces­sor SKU Chart

Model	Cores/Threads	Base/Boostv Fre­quen­cy (Ghz)	L3 Cache (MB)	DDR Chan­nels / Max Memo­ry Capacity	Max DDR5 Freq (MHz) (1DPC)	PCIe® 5 Lanes	Default TDP (W)	cTDP (W)	TCa­se Ope­ra­ting Ran­ge (°C)
8534P	64/128	2.3/3.1	128	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	200	155–225	0–75
8534PN	64/128	2.0/3.1	128	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	175	-	-5–85
8434P	48/96	2.5/3.1	128	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	200	155–225	0–75
8434PN	48/96	2.0/3.0	128	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	155	-	-5–85
8324P	32/64	2.65/3.0	128	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	180	155–225	0–75
8324PN	32/64	2.05/3.0	128	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	130	-	-5–85
8224P	24/48	2.55/3.0	64	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	160	155–225	0–75
8224PN	24/48	2.0/3.0	64	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	120	-	-5–85
8124P	16/32	2.45/3.0	64	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	125	120–150	0–75
8124PN	16/32	2.0/3.0	64	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	100	-	-5–85
8024P	8/16	2.4/3.0	32	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	90	70–100	0–75
8024PN	8/16	2.05/3.0	32	6 / 1.152TB	4800	96	80	-	-5–85

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About AMD 
For more than 50 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies. Bil­li­ons of peo­p­le, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch insti­tu­ti­ons around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. AMD employees are focu­sed on buil­ding lea­der­ship high-per­for­mance and adap­ti­ve pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) web­site, blog, Lin­ke­dIn and Twit­ter pages. 

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ⁱ SP6-008: Ser­ver-side Java^® over­all operations/watt (SPECpower_ssj^®2008) cla­im based on 1P published results at spec.org as of 9/18/2023. 1P ser­vers: EPYC 8534P (64-core, 200W TDP, 27,342 over­all ssj_ops/W, https://spec.org/power_ssj2008/results/res2023q3/power_ssj2008-20230830–01309.html); Intel Xeon Pla­ti­num 8471N (52-core, 300W TDP, 12,281 over­all ssj_ops/W, https://spec.org/power_ssj2008/results/res2023q3/power_ssj2008-20230822–01294.html.
ⁱⁱSP6-014: Trans­co­ding (FFmpeg DTS raw to VP9 codec) aggre­ga­te frames/hour/system W com­pa­ri­son based on AMD inter­nal test­ing as of 9/16/2023. Con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons: 1P 64C EPYC 8534P (437,774 fph medi­an per­for­mance, 16 jobs/8 threads each, avg sys­tem power 362W) powered ser­ver ver­sus 1P 52C Xeon Pla­ti­num 8471N (263,691 fph medi­an per­for­mance, 13 jobs/8 threads each, avg sys­tem power 522W) for ~1.66x the per­for­mance and ~2.39x rela­ti­ve per­for­mance per W. Scores will vary based on sys­tem con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on and deter­mi­nism mode used (max TDP power deter­mi­nism mode pro­fi­le used). This sce­na­rio con­ta­ins many assump­ti­ons and esti­ma­tes and, while based on AMD inter­nal rese­arch and best appro­xi­ma­ti­ons, should be con­side­red an exam­p­le for infor­ma­ti­on pur­po­ses only, and not used as a basis for decis­i­on making over actu­al testing.
ⁱⁱⁱ SP6-005: Apa­che IoTDB edge gate­way performance/system W/system $ com­pa­ri­son based on Pho­ro­nix Test Suite paid test­ing as of 8/18/2023. Con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons: 1P 8C EPYC 8024P (1.00x rela­ti­ve per­for­mance, 159 avg sys­tem W, est $3,441 sys­tem cost USD) powered ser­ver ver­sus 1P 8C Xeon Bron­ze 3408U (0.81x rela­ti­ve per­for­mance, 227 avg sys­tem W, est $3,721 sys­tem cost USD) powered ser­ver for 1.23x the per­for­mance, 30% lower sys­tem power (1.76x the performance/system W), 8% lower sys­tem cost (1.34x the performance/system $) for 1.91x the over­all sys­tem performance/W/$. Assum­ing an 8kW 42U rack deploy­ing ser­vers, 50 ea. EPYC 8024P (assum­ing a mul­ti-node deploy­ment) vs. 35 ea. Xeon 3408U can fit within the power bud­get deli­ve­ring 1.76x the total IoT points/sec throughput/rack. Test­ing not inde­pendent­ly veri­fied by AMD. Scores will vary based on sys­tem con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on and deter­mi­nism mode used (default TDP power deter­mi­nism mode pro­fi­le used). This sce­na­rio con­ta­ins many assump­ti­ons and esti­ma­tes and, while based on AMD inter­nal rese­arch and best appro­xi­ma­ti­ons, should be con­side­red an exam­p­le for infor­ma­ti­on pur­po­ses only, and not used as a basis for decis­i­on making over actu­al testing.
^iv SP6TCO-001: This sce­na­rio con­ta­ins many assump­ti­ons and esti­ma­tes and, while based on AMD inter­nal rese­arch and best appro­xi­ma­ti­ons, should be con­side­red an exam­p­le for infor­ma­ti­on pur­po­ses only, and not used as a basis for decis­i­on making over actu­al test­ing. The Bare Metal Ser­ver Green­house Gas Emis­si­ons TCO (total cost of owner­ship) Esti­ma­tor Tool com­pa­res the sel­ec­ted AMD EPYC™ and Intel^® Xeon^® CPU based ser­ver solu­ti­ons com­pa­ring a COUNT of 1‑, 3‑, and 10 ser­ver nodes and using inte­ger through­put per­for­mance based on the published scores for Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC CPU based ser­vers. This esti­ma­ti­on reflects a 5‑year time frame.
This ana­ly­sis com­pa­res a 1P AMD EPYC_8534PN powered ser­ver with a SPE­Cra­te^®2017_int_base score of 439, https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2023q3/cpu2017-20230828–38760.html com­pared to a 1P Xeon Intel Platinum_8471N based ser­ver with a SPE­Cra­te^®2017_int_base score of 450, https://spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2023q3/cpu2017-20230619–37381.html.
Due the lar­ge varia­ti­on in the­se cos­ts the­se com­pon­ents: Admin cos­ts are not included as part of this ana­ly­sis. Real estate cos­ts are not included as part of this analysis.
Core Assump­ti­ons: Cost of Power @ 0.128 per kWh; Power per rack for ser­ver use 8 kW (kilo­watts); PUE (power usa­ge effec­ti­ve­ness) of 1.7; ser­ver rack size of 42RU. The CPU & Chas­sis Power in this ana­ly­sis is mode­led at 100% of TDP for EPYC powered ser­vers, and at 100% for the Intel based servers.
POWER ONLY OPERATING COSTS: For 1P ser­vers in 1‑, 3‑, and 10-node con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons, EPYC 8534PN CPU-based ser­vers uses 34% less power and 34% lower cost over the 5‑years of this analysis.
The AMD EPYC solu­ti­on sup­ports an esti­ma­ted 26 ser­vers per 1 8kW rack(s); the Intel solu­ti­on sup­ports 17 ser­vers 1 8kW rack(s). AMD has 23% more cores and can deli­ver up to 11414 units of inte­ger per­for­mance per rack. Intel can pro­vi­de up to 7650 units of inte­ger per­for­mance per rack.
For more detail see https://www.amd.co/en/claims/epyc4#SP6TCO-001
^v EPYC-018: Max boost for AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors is the maxi­mum fre­quen­cy achie­va­ble by any sin­gle core on the pro­ces­sor under nor­mal ope­ra­ting con­di­ti­ons for ser­ver systems.