Ever since AMD re-emerged as a significant competitor inside the x86 CPU scene, one among AMD’s prime priorities has been to win over prospects within the extremely profitable and worthwhile server market. It’s a method that’s paid off effectively for AMD, as whereas they’re nonetheless the minority participant within the area, they’ve continued to whittle away at what was as soon as Intel’s absolute management over the market, slowly changing increasingly more prospects over to the EPYC ecosystem.
Now because the Zen Four CPU structure approaches its second birthday, AMD is launching one closing line of EPYC chips, taking goal at one more Xeon market section. This time it’s all in regards to the entry-level 1P server market – small scale, budget-conscientious customers who solely want a handful of CPU cores – which AMD is addressing with their new EPYC 4004 sequence processors.
Within AMD’s numerous product stacks, the brand new EPYC 4004 household basically replaces Ryzen chips to be used in servers. Ryzen for servers was by no means a devoted product lineup inside AMD, however none the much less it has been a product section inside the firm since 2019, with AMD aiming it at smaller-scale internet hosting suppliers who opted to make use of racks of consumer-scale {hardware}, reasonably than going the high-density route with excessive core rely EPYC processors.
With the improve to EPYC standing, that {hardware} ecosystem is being re-deployed as a correct lineup with devoted chips, and a handful of further options befitting an EPYC chip. Consequently, AMD can be increasing the scope of the market segments they’re focusing on by a hair, roping in small enterprise (SMB) customers, whom AMD wasn’t beforehand chasing. Though whatever the identify available on the market section, the top result’s that AMD is carving out a budget-priced sequence of EPYC chips with Four to 16 cores based mostly on their shopper platforms.
Underlying the brand new EPYC 4004 sequence is AMD’s tried and true AM5 platform and Raphael processors, which we all know higher because the Ryzen 7000 sequence. Their new EPYC counterparts are an Eight chip stack that’s comprised nearly solely of rebranded Ryzen 7000 SKUs, with all the identical core counts, clockspeeds, and TDPs as their counterparts. The sole exception right here being the very least expensive chip of the bunch, the Four core 4124P.
| AMD EPYC 4004 Processors | ||||||||||
| AnandTech | Core/ Thread |
Base Freq |
1T Freq |
L3 Cache |
PCIe | Memory | TDP (W) |
Price (1KU) |
Ryzen Version | |
| 4584PX | 16 | 32 | 4200 | 5700 | 128MB (3D) | 28 x 5.0 | 2 x DDR5-5200 UDIMM | 120 | $699 | 7950X3D |
| 4484PX | 12 | 24 | 4400 | 5600 | 128MB (3D) | 120 | $599 | 7990X3D | ||
| 4564P | 16 | 32 | 4500 | 5700 | 64MB | 170 | $699 | 7950X | ||
| 4464P | 12 | 24 | 3700 | 5400 | 64MB | 65 | $429 | 7900 | ||
| 4364P | 8 | 16 | 4500 | 5400 | 32MB | 105 | $399 | 7700X | ||
| 4344P | 8 | 16 | 3800 | 5300 | 32MB | 65 | $329 | 7700 | ||
| 4244P | 6 | 12 | 3800 | 5100 | 32MB | 65 | $229 | 7600 | ||
| 4124P | 4 | 8 | 3800 | 5100 | 16MB | 65 | $149 | New | ||
Since these are all based mostly on AMD’s shopper discrete CPUs, the underlying structure in all of those chips is Zen Four all through. So regardless of being positioned under the EPYC 8004 Siena sequence, you gained’t discover any Zen 4c CPU cores right here; all the things is full-fat Zen Four CCDs. Which implies that whereas there are comparatively few cores total (for an EPYC processor), they’re all high-performing cores, with nothing turboing decrease than 5.1GHz.
Notably right here, AMD is mixing in a few of their 3D V-Cache chip SKUs as effectively, that are signified with the “PX” suffix. Based on the 7950X3D and 7900X3D respectively, each of those chips have 1 CCD with V-Cache stacked on prime of them, affording…
