AMD has made progress by taking market share in high-performance x86 processor designs in the server market, and has announced some of the next 4th generation EPYC families expected during 2023. The X is a direct successor to AMD’s Milan-X EPYC lineup and will be available in the fourth quarter of this year.
Basically, Genoa-X, a V-Cache-enabled version of AMD’s Genoa EPYC CPU, contains up to 96 Zen4 cores per socket and 1GB (or more) of L3 cache. The Genoa-X uses the latest SP5 socket (LGA6096) and has 12 memory channels, similar to the regular Genoa platform scheduled to debut in the fourth quarter of 2022.
This means that the new SP5 platform will support Genoa, Genoa-X, Bergamo, and Siena, but users upgrading from Genoa to Genoa-X will need a new LGA6096 motherboard or will be enabled with a firmware update. It is unknown if it will be.
As a successor to Milan-X, Genoa-X is designed to slot into the same user segment, and AMD will fit in workloads that uniquely benefit from oversized L3 caches, namely primarily those caches. Sell to customers who have workloads. This includes not only databases, but also technical computing workloads (such as CAM).
We look forward to hearing more about Genoa-X and the specific features it will bring to the 4th generation EPYC platform in the future. AMD Genoa-X will be released in 2023.
