Memory Configurations
AMD EPYC Server CPUs, with up to 12 memory channels, help enable flexible memory population strategies to balance performance and cost.
Data Center Innovation Begins Here
From enterprise workloads to high-power computing, AMD EPYC™ Server CPUs are well known for delivering leadership performance, energy-efficiency, and total cost of ownership (TCO). Discover the built-in features and innovative technologies of AMD EPYC Server CPUs that enable a robust foundation for modern data center deployments.
Server Memory Matters
A strong memory subsystem is essential for today’s high performance server processors. Server memory choices are proliferating, providing new choices and options. Discover how AMD EPYC Server CPUs feature high-channel-count memory architectures designed to support and maximize available memory bandwidth, flexibility, and scalability.
Security by Design
AMD EPYC Server CPUs offer security capabilities built in at the silicon level to help you combat evolving security risks. AMD Infinity Guard offers robust foundational security technologies such as Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), a confidential computing solution that helps protect user data and workloads using encrypted virtual machines.
Leadership Power Efficiency
Optimize power efficiency without compromising performance with AMD Infinity power management. Real-time, adaptive power management that helps meet cooling and cost targets while enabling consistent SLAs in your data center.
“Zen” Core Microarchitecture
The AMD “Zen” core microarchitecture powering AMD EPYC Server CPUs delivers leadership performance while addressing efficiency requirements for a wide range of workloads. The combination of Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) and leadership x86 core density makes AMD EPYC Server CPUs the ideal choice for virtualized and cloud workloads.
Frequently Asked Questions
AMD EPYC Server CPUs are designed with advanced AMD "Zen" core architecture, built-in security features, memory subsystems, and high-power management to optimize data center operations.
By leveraging modular SoC microarchitecture and chiplet technology, these CPUs separate compute and I/O dies. This design enables higher core density, enhanced silicon quality, and improved scalability for virtualized and cloud workloads, helping IT leaders optimize rack space and reduce the cost/VM.
The AMD "Zen" architecture benefits enterprise virtualization by delivering industry-leading thread density and performance efficiency. Built into 5th Gen AMD EPYC Server CPUs, the efficiency-optimized AMD "Zen 5" architecture helps IT leaders balance computing needs with power and cooling requirements.
Coupled with AMD Infinity Fabric™ technology, the architecture reduces processing bottlenecks to enable high bandwidth and fast data movement. This ultimately helps reduce operating costs, increase virtual machine density per server, and enables mission-critical workloads to perform without compromise.
IT leaders choose AMD EPYC Server CPUs to address diverse workload demands; an important one is power management. Advanced power management capabilities managed by the System Management Unit (SMU) enable infrastructure teams to balance power, cooling, and operating cost challenges while delivering leadership performance.
AMD Infinity Fabric enables communication between the CPUs, I/O, and memory to deliver high bandwidth and low latency while helping reduce data bottlenecks across the server.
The AMD Infinity Guard technologies are continuously improving to counter the evolving threat landscape. As a result, newer AMD EPYC CPU generations include additional features. All Infinity Guard features require enablement by our OEM partners. For more details, please refer to the Infinity Guard web page: Infinity Guard
No, everything is included and updates are available online.
Please refer to the AMD EPYC CPU specifications webpage: Server Processor Specifications. For more details, please visit the AMD Technical Information Portal
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