CES 2019 | 2019 launch for second-generation EPYC CPUs confirmed at AMD keynote

CES 2019 may have delivered disappointments of various flavors for many this year. One of the most recent, yet perhaps mildest, of these may have been found in the AMD keynote at the exhibition this year. It is true that it delivered some excitement, as it finally introduced the new Radeon VII graphics card. This new GPU is of course directed at content creators and gamers. However, the company’s CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, divulged rather less about the anticipated next-generation EPYC processors.

Saying that, we now know for certain that the successors to existing AMD server solutions will be 7-nanometer (nm) chipsets based on the Zen2 architecture. Su and her colleagues are extremely optimistic about their real-world performance, saying that AMD will “deliver the best computing solution the world has ever seen”. Su claimed that the new generation will deliver 4 times more floating performance per socket, as well as twice the performance per socket, compared to current EPYC silicon.

The CEO also displayed a video that apparently showed a new EPYC pitched against 2 Intel Xeon 8180s in the standard NAMD molecular dynamics simulation. The single EYPC processor allegedly completed this task ahead of the two Xeons, while also posting a greater rate of computing (measured in nanoseconds per day). Dr. Su also announced that this server-grade silicon will be available in the second half of this year.

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