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  • Duncan Macdonald - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    As the AMD EPYC has 128 PCIe lanes - why are any PCIe switches needed. (10 GPUs at 8 lanes per GPU still leaves 48 lanes for storage and networking.)
  • FreckledTrout - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    It says " EPYC 3000-series embedded processor" and those only have 64 PCIe lanes.
  • schujj07 - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    Could only have 24 lanes if the CPU doesn't have more than 8 cores.
  • schujj07 - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    edit: 32 lanes.
    Epyc 31XX & 32XX are 32 lanes
    Eypc 33XX & 34XX are 64 lanes
  • NICOXIS - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    Embedded is 32 lanes for single socket and 64 for dual socket CPUs
    https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/epyc_embedded
  • 12345 - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    Dies not sockets. Up to 2 dies on the same package.
  • nathanddrews - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    Where's the link to the giveaway? LOL
  • NICOXIS - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    What Zen core is Epyc 3000 based on?
  • T1beriu - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    Zen 1
  • NICOXIS - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    you're right, here I found the detailed info
    https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/epyc_embedded
  • schujj07 - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    Still Zen 1. None of the server parts were moved to Zen+.
  • Cooe - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    Wrong. These are the upcoming Rome/Zen 2 parts.
  • JlHADJOE - Saturday, June 1, 2019 - link

    No he is in fact correct. EPYC 3000 is Zen 1. Sapphire is using the single chip version because all the compute is done on the GPU anyway

    Sauce: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/amd/epyc_embedded
  • Cooe - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    Zen 2. It's Rome. (Zen 1 was EPYC 1000). Dunno what all these other people are talking about because they are wrong.
  • Cooe - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    Scratch that. Appears I'm wrong. They named the embedded SKU's as part of the 3000 series for some reason. That makes almost no sense.
  • pogostick - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    It makes perfect sense, and you just demonstrated why.
  • 12345 - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    Doesn't really need to be the same numbering scheme as the desktop parts. There's not exactly a lot of overlap in customer base between them.
  • 12345 - Friday, May 31, 2019 - link

    Zen 1 Naples is Epyc 7000. Apparently Epyc model numbers are meant to follow the old Opteron parts. Epyc 7000 is meant to be the successor to Opteron 6000.
  • Lord of the Bored - Sunday, June 2, 2019 - link

    "Sapphire still has not decided when the 10-way GPU compute system is set to be available and how much it is set to cost, so we will not speculate."

    I'll speculate! The price is probably "your firstborn, and also a kidney."
  • imaskar - Sunday, June 2, 2019 - link

    Looks cool, but needs to be benched. How much compute does it deliver?

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