ASRock Rack EPYCD8 Series Make For Great Value AMD EPYC Motherboards With Rome Support

[nuetzel]

In terms of real-world use though, are there many ROCm users with EPYC + Vega consumer cards? Just as I assumed from the original comment, the focus was on loading it up with multiple cards for ROCm tests. So just wasn't sure if there was a lot of EPYC + consumer card usage as well as how well ROCm works these days when multiple cards are not the same model?

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[zephyrhawk]

I am waiting for a 2p board to support Rome before moving on from my 4x6378 opteron system. These seem to be taking a long time to be available from most manufacturers.

[Michael]

On geizhals.de
ASUS KPNA-U16 353€
Supermicro H11SSL-i 370€

But I think with both mobos you have to ensure to get the second revision with 32 MB BIOS/UEFI flash.

Unfortunately the ASUS board doesn't support Rome. The Supermicro does support Rome only as a "Rev 2" model, similar to ASRock Rack. Unfortunately the ones at $399 USD at least from US retailers appears to be Rev 1 still.

(I had been searching for several weeks to figure out the best value Rome motherboard, so far it still is the ASRock Rack EPYCD8 AFAIK.)

[chithanh]

Have you found any other cheaper EPYC retail board? Most/all are more expensive than that.

On geizhals.de
ASUS KPNA-U16 353€
Supermicro H11SSL-i 370€

But I think with both mobos you have to ensure to get the second revision with 32 MB BIOS/UEFI flash.

[Michael]

You shouldn't need a Radeon Pro card... Vega56/64 or Radeon VII should be fine. Same for Polaris & Fiji, although more of the testing is on Vega these days.

In terms of real-world use though, are there many ROCm users with EPYC + Vega consumer cards? Just as I assumed from the original comment, the focus was on loading it up with multiple cards for ROCm tests. So just wasn't sure if there was a lot of EPYC + consumer card usage as well as how well ROCm works these days when multiple cards are not the same model?

[bridgman]

it would be nice to test Rocm stack performance in those pcie..

Unfortunately I have no Radeon Pro cards for testing.

You shouldn't need a Radeon Pro card... Vega56/64 or Radeon VII should be fine. Same for Polaris & Fiji, although more of the testing is on Vega these days.

[ms178]

Cheaping out on the BIOS chip on these high-cost boards seems to be a really bad mistake of the motherboard makers. And if I were a customer of such a board, I'd be upset about it as it undermines the upgradeability promise AMD made and influences the TCO negatively. I wonder to whom they are marketing these 32Mbit/PCIE 3.0 boards as most new customers should be better served to go straight to the PCIE 4.0 capable boards. And I doubt that customers of the old revision will swap out these boards with the newer revision.

[Michael]

it would be nice to test Rocm stack performance in those pcie..

Unfortunately I have no Radeon Pro cards for testing.

[tildearrow]

Typo:

while maintaining support for the EPYC 7001 Naple series.

[tuxd3v]

it would be nice to test Rocm stack performance in those pcie..