AMD Announces EPYC Embedded 8004 Series

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Phoronix: AMD Announces EPYC Embedded 8004 Series

Building off last year's release of the EPYC 8004 "Siena" processors featuring up to sixty-four Zen 4C cores, AMD today announced the EPYC Embedded 8004 series...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-EPYC-Embedded-8004

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I still think it would be neat if we could get some current gen consumer platforms with a bunch of efficiency cores at a reasonable price. Like the 32 core version of this or an Intel option with 32 E cores from the Lunar Lake / Arrow Lake gen.

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I have a hard time understanding what even the lowest-end model would be useful for where the compute power of a GPU wouldn't be more appropriate. I'm not saying these aren't good products, but I just can't think of any markets where they're needed.

[LtdJorge]

I have a hard time understanding what even the lowest-end model would be useful for where the compute power of a GPU wouldn't be more appropriate. I'm not saying these aren't good products, but I just can't think of any markets where they're needed.

Embedded but very powerful machines. Like ones deployed by telcos, possibly virtualized. You cannot use a GPU to run your software stack.

[schmidtbag]

Embedded but very powerful machines. Like ones deployed by telcos, possibly virtualized. You cannot use a GPU to run your software stack.

But what are the workloads that are so demanding? Modern virtualization instructions really minimize the load on a CPU.
Not sure what you mean about the GPU. I never said or implied the GPU would be the only thing doing work.