Star lake, new tencent epyc servers improve 35% performance
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AMD announced today that it had formed a partnership with Tencent, China's largest data center operator, and said it would provide Tencent with EPYC Rome CPUs for Tencent's new "Star Lake server platform" (unrelated to Intel).
Star Lake, New Tencent Servers Improve 35% Performance
This is another victory for AMD after having won multiple supercomputers, and companies that have not yet invested in AMD's server CPUs are investigating it.
Star Lake is Tencent's custom server implementation in Rome, described as "self-designed". This custom design, according to Tencent, improves energy efficiency under maximum load by 50% by using "advanced thermosiphon heat dissipation technology." It is unclear what exactly is beyond a name for a proprietary cooling solution, but the improved cooling obviously affects performance as hotter processors become less efficient because they consume more power.
AMD did not say which specific EPYC CPU will be used by Tencent's new servers, but it could be the 7H12, which is AMD's highest performing and most power consuming EPYC CPU. That would explain why just improving the cooling solution would create such a drastic change.
The performance gains are impressive, too, with Tencent claiming a 35% increase overall compared to its previous servers. On a specific workload, on the QPS (queries per second) page, Tencent observed a 150% performance improvement. Tencent did not specify how it achieved that massive performance improvement in QPS, but it could be thanks to EPYC Rome's extremely high floating point performance; a 32-core CPU in Rome has twice the floating point performance as a 32-core Naples CPU.
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Most importantly, though, Tencent says Rome can "meet 98% of Tencent's cloud application scenarios . " This is extremely important to AMD that Rome can be this flexible.
Tencent is one of the largest corporations in the world today, and its influence on the entertainment market in Asia is crucial.
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