First AMD EPYC 9965 benchmarks are in; Turin server CPU sets flurry of new world records across wide range of software, but will that be enough to stop Xeon and Arm's forthcoming onslaught?

Intel precocious launched its 128-core "Granite Rapids" Xeon 6900P processor family, yet offering immoderate existent title to AMD’s EPYC 9004 Genoa/Bergamo server line.

The first reviews praised Intel's caller chips, pinch nan wide statement being that nan 6900P scope successfully heralded Intel's long-awaited resurgence successful nan server CPU arena.

While Intel must person been pleased pinch nan reception to its caller processors, location was an elephant successful nan room. The Xeon 6900P processors were pitted up against aging rivals - Genoa is almost 2 years aged now - and AMD had its 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" CPUs successful nan starting blocks.

Not plain sailing

AMD's caller processors person now arrived and nan first reviews for nan EPYC 9575F, 9755, and 9965 Turin server CPUs are in. As was wide expected, these spot AMD correct backmost connected top. As Phoronix notes successful its review, “The caller top-end AMD EPYC Turin processor capacity tin obliterate nan title successful astir workloads and delivers a awesome generational leap successful capacity and powerfulness efficiency."

Phoronix added, “The tested AMD EPYC 9575F high-frequency Turin 64-core processor, EPYC 9755 128-core Turin processor, and EPYC 9965 192-core Turin Dense processors dominated crossed nan wide assortment of server, method computing, and HPC workloads tested. The dual 128-core EPYC 9755 Turin processor was 40% faster than nan dual Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids server pinch MRDIMMs. Even a azygous EPYC 9755 (and EPYC 9965) efficaciously matched nan dual Xeon 6980P processors successful this larger action of benchmarks than what was initially tally for Granite Rapids.”

In its glowing review, Storage Review said, “What sets nan EPYC 9005 bid isolated is its expertise to meet nan divers needs of modern enterprises pinch configurations that standard from entry-level, high-frequency models to ace cache-dense chips to multi-core powerhouses. Whether real-time AI inferencing, computational fluid dynamics, large-scale information analytics, aliases high-resolution 3D rendering, nan EPYC lineup delivers single-threaded responsiveness and multi-threaded efficiency. Advanced features for illustration 12-channel DDR5 representation support, PCIe 5.0 lanes, and AMD’s secure, confidential computing make this bid a capacity upgrade and a broad solution for information centers focused connected nan future.”

In its review, ServeTheHome said AMD EPYC 9005 Turin delivered a “transcendent” performance, noting that “AMD’s look was simple: Increase TDP by 25%+, summation halfway counts by 50%, usage caller process technology, and update its server processors to Zen 5/ Zen 5c architecture.”

Although nan tract was hugely impressed by nan caller chips, STH’s Patrick Kennedy made an absorbing observation. “In position of competing straight pinch Intel for nan top-end sockets vying for nan apical AI nodes, nan business is simply a spot much nuanced than 1 mightiness think. At 192 cores, nan Zen 5c-based AMD EPYC 9965 is awesome for throughput and fantabulous for virtualization and unreality workloads. Still, astatine 128 cores pinch nan Intel Granite Rapids-AP versus 128 cores pinch nan AMD EPYC 9755, AMD does not person nan aforesaid outright activity that it had before. Or amended to say, AMD is nary longer competing astatine nan top-end conscionable pinch itself.”

It isn’t only Intel that AMD has to interest astir either. Arm is besides challenging successful nan information center, and its effect successful nan early shouldn’t beryllium overlooked.

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