AMD 96-Core EPYC 9684X Zen 4 Genoa-X CPU Shows Up for Sale in China

[GFreeman]

The second-hand market in China is always full of gems, but we never expected to see an unreleased 5 nm 96-core EPYC 9684X Genoa-X CPU with 1152 MB of L3 cache. According to the seller, the CPU is "almost new" and in working condition.

In case you missed it earlier, AMD is working on 5 nm Genoa-X EPYC CPUs which will feature up to 96 Zen 4 cores in 5 nm with over 1 GB of L3 cache per socket. These are scheduled to release this year, optimized for technical computing and databases. AMD is also working on Siena CPUs, which should also come this year, featuring up to 64 Zen 4 cores with optimized performance-per-watt, meant for intelligent edge and telco markets.



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[HBSound]

Wow - Nice!!!

 

[Nhonho]

I would like to see tests to see which server applications are accelerated with this large amount of cache memory.

 

[Wirko]

I would like to see tests to see which server applications are accelerated with this large amount of cache memory.

Prospective users have a chip with 1/6 the cores and 1/6 the memory channels already available, and it should be very useful as an application testing platform.

 

[Jism]

12 of those and we can actually make a cluster in where we install Crysis into the shared L3 pool of cache.

 

[unwind-protect]

I would like to see tests to see which server applications are accelerated with this large amount of cache memory.

You can check the previous generation with the large cache, they have been out for a while. Serving over the network is not much affected. Technical computation is. I think servethehome will have appropriate numbers somewhere.