AMD CEO Unveils 4th Gen Epyc With 3X Performance Over Rivals

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Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, today launched the company's 4th generation Epyc processors.

Santa Clara, California-based AMD unveiled the new family of processors based on the Zen 4 architecture, which gave the company an edge over rivals like Intel.

She said the fourth generation Epyc with up to 96 cores has three times the performance of the competition. Su said the processors provide industry-leading performance and power efficiency for data center applications.

AMD started using its Epyc processors in 2017, when its well-designed Zen 1 core made it much more competitive against Intel's then-dominant microprocessors.

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Zen-based consumer and server processors have taken the market by storm and brought about a big turnaround for AMD with years of market share gains against Intel. Mark Papermaster, CTO, said Zen disrupted the industry in 2017 because it delivered both energy efficiency and performance gains. It added both Zen 4 coming now and Zen 4c (with energy efficiency in mind) coming in early 2023.

In 2021, AMD's Milanese version of Epyc had a 40% performance lead over Intel's Icelake, and AMD is now on its fourth version of its Epyc family of processors, starting in 2021. 'today.

“I am very proud to say that the fourth generation of Epyc provides leadership in all dimensions,” said Su.

AMD is in a period of renewal with the launch of new Ryzen and RDNA 3 chips. And now it's refreshing the Epyc product line for the first time since 2021.

"Over the past five years, we have consistently delivered three generations of Epyc," Su said. "All major cloud providers have deployed Epyc."

Lisa Su introduces the 4th generation Epyc processor.

There are nearly 600 Epyc cloud instances available. Five of the 10 most powerful supercomputers and eight of the 10 most efficient supercomputers use Epyc.

"In the enterprise, we are also seeing a significant deployment of Epyc," Su said.

The right data center processor also has efficiency and durability in mind. Power consumption is becoming a major limiter in data centers, Su said. And in some parts of the world, energy costs have increased fivefold, she said.

She noted that you can save millions of dollars in data centers because you can get the same performance as 15 Intel Xeon Platinum 8380 processors with just five 4th Gen Epyc processors.

"Computation is actually used to transform and drive the core business of the organization," she added.

The fourth-generation Epyc uses 5-nanometer fabrication (and 6-nanometer for chips used for memory) to embed 90 billion transistors in the processor, Su said. Microsoft Azure has announced that it will release fourth-generation Epyc-based virtual machine instances.

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