AMD on Tuesday announced a new line of high-frequency EPYC processors designed to deliver top-notch performance across a wide range of enterprise workloads. The new processor line, 7Fx2, which includes 8-core, 16-core and 24-core chips, is aimed at databases, HPC and hypervisor infrastructure (HCI).
Combining AMD Infinity architecture with faster Zen 2, the new chips deliver the highest performance per core in the EPYC processor family. AMD re-entered the data center market in 2017 with server . AMD executives said at the company’s Financial Analyst Day in March that the second-generation EPYC processors continue to gain traction in the enterprise, cloud and HPC markets. Dan McNamara, SVP and GM of AMD’s Server Business Unit, said the company will continue to gain traction in the market, given the modernization phase that is taking place with the rise of 5G networks, as well as planned upgrades to Windows Server and vSphere. AMD is currently focused on specific business objectives. These include helping enterprises extract insights from their data faster while helping them run commercial HPC applications. Another goal of the company is to facilitate the convergence of computing, storage and networking. The new 8-core and 16-core chips “demonstrate up to 17% more transactions per minute with SQL Server compared to the competition,” according to AMD.
The new processors are supported by a range of partners, including Dell EMC, HPE, Lenovo and Nutanix. Supermicro is launching the industry's first blade platform built for EPYC processors with support for the new chips. Finally, IBM Cloud is launching a new bare metal server based on the 7F72 processors.
