Battle looms over server processors with AMD EPYC and its compatibility with Microsoft's Azure

AMD is standing up to Intel and is doing more than well according to at least the results of its latest proposals. With products focused on the domestic market, they now set their sights on professional environments with the use of servers and to gain a foothold they have presented today the new AMD EPYC 7000 processors

A family of processors that have been designed from the ground up and have been focused on use in high performance data centers with which They intend to steal market share from Intel Xeon, which until now had been the dominators in this segment, holding up to 95% of the market.

AMD EPYC 7000 processors have up to 32 high-performance cores with which the firm ensures that they achieve higher performance than competitive productsby achieving greater memory bandwidth, allowing more floating point operations among other improvements, something that ultimately allows supporting greater workloads.

A family with processors that will start with 8 cores and 16 process threads in the Epyc 7251 model and that will reach up to 32 cores and 64 threads of the Epyc 7601, the top of the range, a model that will have a frequency of 2.2 Ghz and will reach 3.2 Ghz in all its cores.

In addition AMD has secured the support of the most important hardware manufacturers (HP, Dell, Asus, Gigabyte, Inventec, Lenovo …) and even that of Microsoft, which has announced that this family of processors will be compatible with Windows Azure and Windows Server.In the words of Girish Bablani, Microsoft Corporate Vice President:

The new AMD EPYC processors feature a base that offers up to 20% energy savings compared to Intel Xeon E5-2660 , also achieving up to 70% more performance in the most economical models and up to 47% more performance in the high-end. They also offer compatibility with eight channels of DDR4 RAM and offer support for up to 2 TB of memory per processor.

It remains to be seen, then, what Intel's next move is in the face of this important challenge that it faces. What we do know is the top-of-the-range price of the new AMD EPYC family, as the 7601 will have a price close to 4,000 euros.

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