AMD held its AMD 2017 Financial Analyst Day presentation. Aside from dreary financial stuff has been making a number of announcements regarding multiple products on the CPU and GPU fronts. More after the break.
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- AMD states that Data-centers are their biggest growth market.
AMD EPYC
- AMD Just announced the brand name for Data-center CPU based on Ryzen, the brand name will be called EPYC.
EPYC obviously is what previously known as "Naples". A series server processors based on"(Ry)Zen" x86 processing engine with up to 32 cores. Naples has 32 cores and is capable of 64 simultaneous threads, eight memory channels, supporting up to 2TB RAM per CPU and 128 PCIe 3.0 lanes. Memory can run 2400/2677 MHz per channel. The memory controller is also capable of using bigger than 16GB DIMMs and in total you could fit 4 TB of DDR4 memory. The Naples processor (well SoC) connects to whatever you need it through over a 128 high-speed I/O-lanes mostly Gen 3. This means you could connect 4 GPU's, 12 NVMe-SSD's and some fast 10 GigE Ethernet ports to go along with it. When you couple two processors in SMT, the IO is shared though and 64 lanes will be used for the interconnect in-between the two Naples processors. Each Naples processor has four Zen based 8-core dies interconnected.
Ryzen Mobile
- Ryzen Mobile Solutions will Launch at the End of 2017 (Q4). Commercial market will see 1H 2018 availability.
- Ryzen Mobile will get on-die 'Vega' cores, aka Vega based architecture.
- Mark Papermaster mentions Zen 2 to be based on 7nm as well as Zen 3 (2020)
- Vega is released in June says Papermaster, based on 14nm and 14nm+ node fabrication. Navi, the next-next-gen GPU architecture will be based in 7nm.
- Ryzen 3 will be released in Q3 of this year
Ryzen PRO
- Ryzen Pro is announced, these are Ryzen based processors for the commercial market. AMD will release them for the desktop and mobile market.
Threadripper
- Jim Anderson announces 16-core / 32 thread desktop parts, threadripper. It will be available Summer 2017 and more information will become available during Computex.
AMD Radeon RX VEGA - Radeon Rising
- Earlier on in the presentations Mark Papermaster mentioned Radeon Rx Vega to become available in June. Meanwhile Chief architecht of the Radeon Technology Group Raja Koduri is talking a lot about the benefits of the new Vega architecture and heterogeneous computing (cpu+gpu) and its various possible implementations. AMD things that Vega is going to be big in the data-center, he shows examples of DeepBench inbetween the NVidia P100 and Vega. Nvidia scored 133 Ms, the Vega setup 88. In this score lower is better.
- AMD launches Radeon Vega Frontier Edition - the card is a mission intelligent enterprise graphics card for professional usage (data-crunching) and product designers. The card comes with 16 GB of HBM2 graphics memory and will perform in the 13 TFLOP (fp32) performance bracket. The 16GB Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will become available late June 2017.
| Presenters | Titles |
|---|---|
| Lisa Su | President and Chief Executive Officer |
| Mark Papermaster | Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer |
| Jim Anderson | Senior Vice President and General Manager, Computing and Graphics Business Group |
| Raja Koduri | Senior Vice President and Chief Architect, Radeon Technologies Group |
| Forrest Norrod | Senior Vice President and General Manager Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-Custom Business Group |
| Devinder Kumar | Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer |
