AMD EPYC™ 9004 Series Processors Now Released

The long wait is over! You can now get your hands on the new AMD EPYC 9004 series processors. These enterprise-level processors are designed for continuous loading and outpace the competition in the server industry. Not only are these processors at the heart of AMD's mission to grow its server solutions, but EPYC 9004 is designed to take further market share away from AMD's competitors.

 

What’s New About AMD EPYC 9004

AMD EPYC 9004 processors are a fantastic way to increase computational performance and leverage the EPYC 9004 series processor's massive onboard cache and improved performance per watt. With the codename 'Genoa,' these EPYC processors boast a staggering 80% improvement in performance over the previous generation.  

Key features include:

  •       Up to 96 Zen 4 cores
  •       12 DDR5 channel support
  •       Gen5 PCIe support
  •       Low energy footprint

 

AMD’s EPYC 9004 Series Systems

With AMD's Epyc 9004 Genoa Series Systems, AMD has worked on growing its business solutions including networking and server solutions. EPYC 9004 series processors are at the heart of all modern server-based enterprise solutions eclipsing competitor alternatives. The EPYC 4th Generation processor series is designed to be a multi-faceted workhorse for effectively all industries and sectors. AMD breaks down the applications for these new processors into 6 fields:

  •       Cloud computing
  •       Database and analytics
  •       Design and simulation
  •       HCI and virtualization
  •       Networking and telecommunications
  •       Supercomputing and HPC

These Zen 4 processors are built on 5nm process technology, cramming more on processor dies. Chip arrangements enable EPYC 9004 series processors to support the following:

  •       12 DDR5 channels boosting overall system performance.
  •       Next-gen I/O with PCIe 5.0 speeds up data processing.
  •       CXL 1.1+ memory expansion allows you to access more memory for large in-memory workloads.
  •       Silicon to application layer security.
  •       Virtualization security.

Overall, Zen 4 enables server components to work as an extension of EPYC 9004 Series processors.

Security Improvements

Besides cramming more onto a piece of silicon, AMD has been significantly overhauling its security measures of processor bases. Here we'll review some key security features that could save your business from being threatened by a dirty rat.

Infinity Guard Security

Cybercriminals often target processors to help deliver malware and establish backdoors by exploiting unpatched exploits by the hardware manufacturer. AMD's Infinity Guard protects you from the silicon up to the application layer.

Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV)

Today, many of the environments are virtualized but require secure processor technology to stop bad actors from accessing your whole universe of systems. AMD's latest processor offerings encrypt and secure each one of your virtualizations with just one of up to 509 unique encryption keys that only your processor will know! This ensures if a bad actor launches a nefarious virtual machine on your memory or compromises your hypervisor's security, your data is still protected within your virtual environments.

Secure Memory Encryption (SME)

AMD has taken the phrase 'encrypt everything' to the next level by encrypting data in your main memory channels. This shuts down 'cold boot' attacks. 

Expanding Business Capabilities

A whole host of OEMs are creating one and two-socket offerings, including Supermicro.

Server Simply’s Offerings

Server Simply creates separate Processor Type filter option 'AMD EPYC 9004 series' to narrow down product ranges to create an entire ecosystem that leverages the Genoa processors:

Rackmount Servers

Serversimply.com Rackmount Servers provide businesses with performance, scalability, and energy efficiency. The AMD Epyc Genoa CPU based servers are great for all common server tasks and provide a business with the flexibility to meet different computational demands.

GPU-accelerated Servers

GPU-accelerated servers leverage the AMD EPYC 9004-based DDR5 and parallel processing capabilities to easily handle AI and big data. These processors are designed to work with all parts of the server their hosted on using the PCIe Gen 5 pipelines and can be scaled to meet your business needs. The great thing is the power 5nm architectures provide to shrink your hardware footprint and reduce your HVAC cost. GPU-accelerated processing is only made efficient by the number of parallel processes occurring during each clock cycle.

AI processing requires low-level data processing rather than high-level computation, so the number of processor cores helps, along with the large cache size the 9004 chips offer to deliver an equivalent performance benefit in AI processing. The 5nm architecture, along with an efficient layout of cores, cache, and I/O, all help to provide a highly efficient AI processing capability.

Big data needs performant processing and parallel processing to manage the amount of data present efficiently. Big data can be created and need analyzing or processing for a wide variety of reasons, from data analytics to processing 3D scanning data or processed engineering models. AMD EPYC 9004 is excellent for meeting your data processing needs.

Storage Servers

Server Simply has also created an Storage server selection using the AMD EPYC 9004 series processors. Lightening fast high-density storage helps provide your business with awesome IOPS/TB performance. The Supermicro offering from Serversimply.com leverages AMD's data security solutions, including encryption between the main memory and the processors. Speed isn't compromised due to an efficient encryption algorithm being used and is actually improved thanks to the DDR5 PCIe Gen 5 pipelines.

Multi-Node Servers

Finally Multi-Node servers, Supermicro has thought ahead regarding the needs of users requiring high-end performance for remote graphics and scientific computing. This is a clever use for the AMD EPYC 9004 series processors as it helps reduce the need to depend on server data processing and reduce network traffic.

Also, Zen 4 processors provide excellent CPU-driven rendering in real-time thanks to the number of cores the system can leverage, and the number of pipelines motherboards can integrate to move data between the processor and each core. This enables computer-aided design and graphics processing to occur in real-time, accelerating workflows for product development or solely graphical outputs. 

Supermicro’s Offerings

Supermicro has also announced a range of New servers based on Genoa processors. The first is GrandTwin which provides a multi-node solution with I/O designed specifically for high-density single-processor performance. Second, CloudDC is a single processor offering designed to provide cloud computing efficiently to clients. Finally, Hyper is a dual-processor server offering designed to cover a variety of computing needs from storage to I/O scaling.

 

Commitment from Software Providers

In terms of software solutions, companies like Microsoft and Oracle are all positioning support for the new processors. For example, Microsoft has already announced that the new 9004 processors will power two new HPC virtual machines on its Azure platform.

Additionally, the security features built into Zen 4 processors cater to virtualized environments along with traditional silicon up to application layer security. This makes the AMD 9004 processors an excellent offering for software vendors worried about the security of their offerings.