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AMD Unleash Rome Epyc CPUs – Taking the Extreme to New Limits
EPYC to ROME AMD are pushing their new 7nm technology pretty hard on the consumer side, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still advancing their server division either. The AMD Epyc platform is a big hit. Especially so in the datacenter and supercomputer market. However, their ROME CPUs and platforms…
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AMD and Cray Team-Up to Build the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
US Government Announces Project The US Department of Energy is announcing that they have tapped AMD to create the world’s fastest supercomputer. The chip company is doing this in collaboration with supercomputer manufacturer Cray for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. Dubbed “Frontier”, it will go online by 2021…
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AMD Predicted To Have 10% Server Market Share By 2020
AMD Server Market Share At the time of writing, while the home market processor market share is seeing something of a light shift towards AMD, servers are still hugely dominated by Intel. This is, of course, in no small part due to AMD not really having intensely pushed for the…
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CRYORIG R1 Universal CPU Cooler on AMD SP3 Review
CRYORIG R1 Universal CPU Cooler on AMD SP3 Review Today I’m testing a cooler on a chip that it isn’t intended for: I’m putting one of CRYORIG‘s R1 Universal cooler on one of my EPYC processors. While the default mounting system doesn’t support this kind of setup, it is possible…
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EPYC AMD Deal With Amazon Sees Huge Stock Rise
AMD Announce EPYC Deal With Amazon With the dust settling over yesterdays AMD ‘Next Horizons’ event, I think it’s pretty safe to say that the markets have responded well to the announcements. A major highlight was the reveal of their brand new (and worlds first) 7nm graphics card. An area…
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AMD Unveils Zen 2 EPYC 7nm CPU with 25% Performance Gain
AMD Introduces “Rome” Following up Intel’s announcement of new Xeon server processors recently, AMD is firing a return salvo of their own to lay claim to more real estate in the enterprise CPU market. This time, their announcement does not include a rehash or glued-together previously released parts like Intel’s.…
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Intel Announces Cascade Lake-AP Xeon with up to 48-Cores
Intel’s Answer to AMD’s EPYC Intel is announcing the upcoming launch of their new Cascade Lake-AP Xeon processor line. These are set to up the ante against AMD EPYC‘s 32-cores, bringing the core-count battle back to Intel’s side. While Intel is launching their Cascade Lake-SP line soon with processors up…
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Supermicro H11SSL-i (SP3 EPYC) Server Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications, and Packaging Today it is time to take a closer look at another server motherboard out of the house of Supermicro. Supermicro builds some amazing servers and motherboards, so I have no doubt that it will be a pleasure. As always. I’m taking a closer look at the…
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AMD EPYC 7351P 16-Core 32-Thread Processor (SP3) Review
Introduction AMD EPYC 7351P 16-Core/32-Thread SP3 Processor GIGABYTE send us some AMD EPYC processors (link) so we can test the matching motherboards, so it’s only suitable to offer you full reviews of the processors themselves. Today we’re taking a closer look at the second of two, the AMD EPYC 7351P.…
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AMD EPYC 7551P 32-Core/64-Thread SP3 Processor Review
Introduction AMD EPYC 7551P 32-Core/64-Thread SP3 Processor GIGABYTE send us some AMD EPYC processors (link) so we can test the matching motherboards, so it’s only suitable to offer you full reviews of the processors themselves. Today we’re taking a closer look at the first of two, the AMD EPYC 7551P.…
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AMD Report Ryzen Has Led To Highest Sales For 7 Years
AMD Report Ryzen Has Led To Highest Sales For 7 Years With the release of the 2nd Generation of Ryzen processors being just as good as the 1st gen, things have been looking good for team red for a little while now. It seems, however, that things are far better…
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GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0 (SP3 EPYC) Server Motherboard Review
Introduction, Specifications, and Packaging GIGABYTE MZ31-AR0 (SP3 EPYC) Server Motherboard Today is a grand day as we have our first motherboard for AMD‘s EPYC processors on the test bench. Since we reviewed Intel’s new server processors, users have been asking us to show what AMD’s EPYC platform can do in…
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Chinese Firm Begins Making AMD Zen Based x86 CPUs
AMD Chinese Joint Venture Turns EPYC into “Dhyana” AMD and Intel are the two major players in x86. Due to the x86 and x86-64 patents, the two have a near duopoly over x86 CPU design. While rivals, the two companies have complex cross-licensing deals that allow them to use each…
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AMD at Computex 2018 Live Stream Live Blog and Recap
AMD @ Computex 2018 This year has been quite successful for AMD, building upon the success of their launch last year with the second generation Ryzen CPUs. Now they are using that momentum to propel themselves even further and capitalize that into more success. For Computex 2018, they are expected…
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Der8auer Mods EPYC CPU to Work on X399 Threadripper Mobo
Der8auer’s EPYC Threadripper Saga Roman “Der8auer” Hartung, the famed overclocker who pointed out the VRM cooling inadequacies on Intel motherboards several months ago is back with a neat new experiment. Initially set out to find out that AMD‘s Threadripper desktop CPUs and EPYC server processors are identical. He even went…
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