Today, AMD announced the expansion of its 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor family with six new offerings. These CPUs are designed to meet the needs of general IT and mainstream computing for businesses that want to take advantage of established platforms. The complete family of 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs offers impressive price-performance, modern security features, and energy efficiency for less demanding business critical workloads, complementing the performance and efficiency of the latest 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors.
The demand for AI and high-performance computing is creating a technology gap for IT decision-makers who need mainstream performance. To address this, AMD is extending the 3rd Gen EPYC CPU offering to provide cost-effective and proven solutions for mid-market and channel customers. These CPUs offer excellent value, performance, energy efficiency, and security features for business-critical applications. The 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPU portfolio supports a wide range of enterprise server solutions and is available through trusted channel sellers and OEMs such as Cisco, Dell Technologies, Gigabyte, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro.
"Today's CIOs and IT decision makers using aging data center infrastructure need a simple and seamless upgrade path to next-generation technologies," said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager of the Server Business Unit at AMD. "We have identified an opportunity to offer our customers more options that bring the performance and efficiency of EPYC to less demanding but still critical workloads. Servers powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs deliver impressive price-performance on widely deployed, cost-effective, and proven technologies."
The 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs, based on the "Zen 3" core architecture, are used by leading enterprises, cloud service providers, government agencies, and financial services for highly performant solutions. Emirates NBD Bank, for example, deployed these CPUs to improve performance, consolidate workloads, and create a streamlined private cloud infrastructure. MonetaGo also leveraged Google Cloud Confidential Computing technology powered by AMD EPYC CPUs to prevent financing fraud and provide safer financing options.
There is broad ecosystem support for the 3rd Gen EPYC CPUs, with trusted partners offering a variety of systems optimized for price-performance, modern security features, and energy efficiency. Cisco, for instance, plans to deliver UCS rack servers and EPYC-based blade servers to meet customers' data center design needs. GIGABYTE has been a close collaborator with AMD since 2016 and offers a range of systems for AI, HPC, cloud, and edge computing. Lenovo combines the reliability of ThinkSystem servers with 3rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs to provide increased value for enterprise applications.
The 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors deliver strong performance across the portfolio, supporting up to eight channels of fast DDR4 memory and up to 128 lanes of high throughput PCIe Gen 4. These processors allow customers to maximize the value of their IT infrastructure investments. The entire lineup of 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors is available today and is fully compatible with existing AMD EPYC 7003 Series CPU-based systems, providing a seamless upgrade path.
