AMD Reveals 5th Gen EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs: Up to 192 ‘Zen 5’ Cores, 384 Threads on SP5 Socket, Expected in 2H 2024

AMD has announced its new EPYC 9005 “Turin” CPU lineup with up to 192 Zen 5 cores, launching in 2H/2024. The company has unveiled its Zen 5-based EPYC Turin CPU, expected to be part of the EPYC 9005 family which will include a range of chips tailored for compute, cloud, telco, and edge-optimized variants. While specific information has not yet been made available, AMD is advising Intel to watch out for the future Turin, which they imply will be quite the performance beast.

All New AMD 5th Gen EPYC ‘Turin’ CPUs

To compare performance on an equal playing field, AMD puts a 128-core EPYC “Turin” CPU (no further specifications) against Intel’s 5th Gen Xeon Emerald Rapids CPU, the Xeon Platinum 8592+ with 64 cores (top configuration for Emerald Rapids). The AMD Turin CPUs see 2.5 to 5.4 times the performance uplift, with the strongest showing in workloads.

AMD’s next-generation EPYC Turin lineup, which is next in line to launch as part of the 5th Gen EPYC family, features a handful of preliminary specifications, with at least 20 SKUs, based on the Zen 5 & Zen 5C core architecture, already finding their way to the public arena. These CPUs are backward-compatible with existing 4th Gen EPYC processors on the SP5 (LGA 6096) socket while bringing support for DDR5 6000 MT/s memory to the table. One possibility is that the lineup may include 128 Zen 5 and 192 Zen 5C cores, but this may not be the final configuration as of now.

Notable SKUs in the lineup include the EPYC 9845 (160 Core / 320 Thread), 9825 (144 Core / 288 Thread), 9745 (128 Core / 256 Thread), 9655 (96 Core / 192 Thread), 9645 (96 Core / 192 Thread), and 9565 (72 Core / 144 Thread), all featuring 64 Core+ variants with more than 256 MB of L3 cache and TDPs ranging from 320/400 up to 500W.

Additionally, AMD’s EPYC Turin CPUs will support DDR5-6000 MT/s memory in capacities up to 4 TB on an 8 DIMM motherboard, with up to 128 PCIe Gen5 lanes. The AMD EPYC Turin “5th Gen” family is slated for release later this year, following the formal launch of Zen 5 & Zen 5C architectures for desktop and client PC platforms. It will compete against Intel‘s Xeon Granite Rapids P-Core and Sierra Forest E-Core (288 Core) CPUs, with AMD currently sampling its 5th Gen EPYC Turin CPUs.

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