Yesterday, AMD unveiled EPYC Genoa, the newest member of the data center CPU family. They are known as the fourth generation EPYC processors and include PCIe 5.0, DDR5, and CXL capabilities in addition to a Zen 4 design. AMD made the decision to produce SKUs with up to 96 cores and 192 threads, an increase from the previous generation’s 64C/128T architectures, in order to compete with cloud, corporate, and HPC products. Today, rather than from an official AMD presentation, we are learning more about the performance and power characteristics of the AMD EPYC Genoa 9654, 9554, and 9374F SKUs from the 4th generation. Numerous benchmarks for rendering, compilation, encoding, parallel computing, molecular dynamics, and other topics were released by Tom’s Hardware.

In the comparison testing, we use the AMD EPYC Milan 7763, 75F3, and Intel Xeon Platinum 8380, which is the company’s most advanced processor up until the release of Sapphire Rapids. When comparing 4th-gen EPYC 64C/128T SKUs to 3rd-gen 64C/128T EPYC SKUs, the performance of compression and parallel computing benchmarks has improved by 30%. The margin widens when scaling to the 96C/192T SKU, and AMD emerges as the market leader in server performance. Visit this page to learn more about the benchmark results. When compared to Intel’s offerings, AMD comes out on top because of its more effective single- and multi-threaded design. We’re still waiting to see how the 4th generation Xeon compares to Genoa, but obviously beating the Sapphire Rapids to market is a big win for team red.