AMD Epyc 9654 sighted: launch together with Zen 4?

While Intel is a serious competitor to AMD in the desktop segment with the Alder Lake chips and is regularly ahead in benchmarks, the situation is different in the enterprise segment. According to the current status, Intel cannot do anything against AMD’s Epyc Milan chips in terms of performance and efficiency. To ensure that this remains the case in the future, AMD has announced Epyc-Genoa, which can boast even more cores. The flagships are said to offer 96 cores including Hyperthreading and thus be able to do significantly more than the previous chips with a maximum of 64 cores.

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The hardware tester YuuKi_AnS has now shared the first images of the finished Genoa chips, which are also said to be based on the Zen 4 microarchitecture, which is also supposed to offer the upcoming desktop platform around the AM5 socket. His picture shows an AMD Epyc 9654, which can offer a full 96 cores at a TDP of 360 watts. The chip is said to be available for OEMs and the image looks as if a single chip was photographed from a bundle of trays intended for OEMs.

For the first time, the new Epyc chips also need a new socket to support the change from DDR4 to DDR5 memory and the larger amounts of data. The Epyc Genoa processors, which are also said to offer PCI-E 5.0, are intended as competitors for Intel’s Sapphire Rapid chips, which are being delayed. With this significant advantage, AMD could continue to gain market share in the server market, which has been growing continuously since Zen, and generate a lot of sales until the launch of Intel’s products. However, the chip shown is not yet AMD’s top model. That should be the Epyc 9664, a 96 core with a TDP of 400 watts and a higher core clock.

Source: YuuKi_AnS