AMD throws some Epyc shade on Xeon-powered servers
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During a portion of its 2017 Financial Analyst Day, AMD made a splash by officially showing its 32-core Epyc (ni(C)e Naples) server chips. Each of those chips comprises four eight-core Zen units, connects up to 8 memory channels, and has 128 lanes of PCIe 3.0 connectivity.
Those specs are enticing enough on their own, but the first questions on every datacenter administrator's mind are how exactly do these CPUs perform and how exactly does AMD intend to fit them onto rack units. As it turns out, AMD isn't trying to aim cannonballs at top-end Xeon ...