AMD Announces EPYC 7532 + EPYC 7662 As Newest Rome Processors

[starshipeleven]

My naive assumption would be silicon lottery with defect caches (is that even possible)?

Cache is a pretty big surface area (relatively speaking) so yeah, defect caches are a thing just as defect cores.

[starshipeleven]

So they're still holding back on the lower core count cpus with full cache? Or maybe the niche for those cpus is just too small for them ... It's maybe easier to develop a bios feature to disable some number of cores per ccx.

Yes it is easier but it's kind of retarded to disable cores and sell the part for cheap when you could NOT disable the core and sell this CPU for A LOT more as a mid/high end part. AMD CPUs are literally flying off the shelves in server market at the moment, and that takes priority over cheaper parts.

[andrewjoy]

"Just" a 32 Core

What a time to be a sysadmin. When single socket 32 core processors are the mid tier ...... . Not long ago i remember a sysadmin calling a dual socket 4 cores per socket server a "beast". (Still running too but with some kock off 8 core qualifying samples i got off ebay for mucho cheap price, warranty lasts till you open the box type of deal, but they will hold out till i get budget for a 24core rome.)

[CochainComplex]

So they're still holding back on the lower core count cpus with full cache? Or maybe the niche for those cpus is just too small for them ... It's maybe easier to develop a bios feature to disable some number of cores per ccx.

My naive assumption would be silicon lottery with defect caches (is that even possible)?

[tchiwam]

I ordered the 7262 exactly for that reason...

[pegasus]

So they're still holding back on the lower core count cpus with full cache? Or maybe the niche for those cpus is just too small for them ... It's maybe easier to develop a bios feature to disable some number of cores per ccx.

[skeevy420]

No kidding. This CPU cache is larger than my first hard drive. Woah!

And here I was thinking that 640K was all we'd ever need.

[torsionbar28]

And here I was thinking the original amount of cache was a lot...

No kidding. This CPU cache is larger than my first hard drive. Woah!

[Michael]

Michael typo:
"Remaining at the top end of the Rome line-up is the EPYC 7442", shouldn't it be 7742?

Yep fixed thanks.

[schmidtbag]

And here I was thinking the original amount of cache was a lot...