The AMD Ryzen Embedded V2516 is a desktop processor with 6 cores, launched in November 2020. It is part of the Ryzen Embedded lineup, using the Zen 2 (Renoir) architecture with Socket FP6. Thanks to AMD Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) the core-count is effectively doubled, to 12 threads. Ryzen Embedded V2516 has 8 MB of L3 cache and operates at 2.1 GHz by default, but can boost up to 3.95 GHz, depending on the workload. AMD is building the Ryzen Embedded V2516 on a 7 nm production process using 9,800 million transistors. The silicon die of the chip is not fabricated at AMD, but at the foundry of TSMC. The multiplier is locked on Ryzen Embedded V2516, which limits its overclocking capabilities.
With a TDP of 10 W, the Ryzen Embedded V2516 consumes very little energy. AMD's processor supports DDR4 memory with a dual-channel interface. The highest officially supported memory speed is 3200 MT/s, but with overclocking (and the right memory modules) you can go even higher. ECC memory is supported, too, which is an important capability for mission-critical systems, to avoid data corruption. For communication with other components in the machine, Ryzen Embedded V2516 uses a PCI-Express Gen 3 connection. This processor features the Radeon Graphics 384SP integrated graphics solution.
Hardware virtualization is available on the Ryzen Embedded V2516, which greatly improves virtual machine performance. Programs using Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) will run on this processor, boosting performance for calculation-heavy applications. Besides AVX, AMD is including the newer AVX2 standard, too, but not AVX-512.