AMD’s first Genoa-X CPU – The EPYC 9684X was leaked yesterday by Chinese 3rd party seller Goofish. It featured a huge 1152 MB cache, although specifics remain unknown until tested on a proper SP5 platform.
Today, they leaked the Cinebench R23 benchmarks for another Genoa chip – The EPYC 9V84. This is a similar engineering sample supplied in trays for early evaluation. This is a custom design for one of AMD’s customers, scoring 111383 points on multi-core CPU and packing 96 cores and 192 threads.
The 96 Zen 4 cores are based on the TSMC 5nm process node. It also packs 384MB of L3 cache and 96MB of L2 cache, similar to the current flagship chip – the EPYC 9654 CPU.
The 9V84 is an ES CPU, meaning it ships with a lower clock frequency of 2.0 GHz, with a 2.4GHz frequency. The memory support and PCIe lanes are the same 128 Gen 5.0 with 12-channel DDR5 support.
It was also mentioned earlier that all the chips will be positioned for cache-optimized workloads, similar to the previous generation of 3D V-Cache EPYC CPUs.
The EPYC 9V84 Genoa Custom CPU is listed at USD 3000, a quarter of the flagship EPYC 9654 that retails currently close to USD 12000. This is definitely a very lucrative price point for potential buyers.
It must be kept in mind that Microsoft’s Azure cloud services featured EPYC CPUs in the past with the “V” identifier, although they weren’t the only ones to do so.
Interested companies must also keep in mind that the ES CPUs like EPYC can be a major hassle to get on board. Although the Chinese retailer says it won’t be a problem, unless properly tested on an SP5 motherboard there’s no sure way to know.
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