AMD EPYC Is Reportedly Coming To Socket AM5 Motherboards

AMD EPYC Is Reportedly Coming To Socket AM5 Motherboards

It looks like AMD is looking to further expand its EPYC line of server processors, although interestingly, the attention has been turned to the consumer desktop Socket AM5 motherboards. The lineup will use the “EPYC 4004” naming and will feature identical socket form factor as the consumer Ryzen 7000/8000 series processors.

Currently, the Zen4-powered 4th Gen EPYC processors are split into three codenames (segments), including Genoa (9004 Series, Zen4, Enterprise & HPC), Bergamo (9704 Series, Zen4c, Cloud), and Siena (8004 Series, Zen4c, Low-power & Edge). Based on the leak provided by @AnhPhuH on X (Twitter), the EPYC 4004 series will slot at the bottom of the EPYC lineup, as it features the same Raphael codename shared with Zen4 desktop CPUs. That, in theory, should mean its core count and cache size will match the Ryzen counterparts.

Aside from that, the leaker claims that X3D variants will be available too, which should be similar to Ryzen’s X3D models. It will only support single-socket (1P) configuration, so in most cases, EPYC 4004 will be mostly similar to Ryzen 7000/8000 on a hardware level. However, the leak makes no mention of motherboard chipset support, but AMD is most likely going to design a server-specific chipset to fill that need.

As for how AMD will differentiate these products from the existing Ryzen PRO or Ryzen Embedded series of processors, this is so far unclear. One possible theory is that AMD may enable official ECC memory support (Ryzen supports ECC unofficially), or even design a new I/O die to accommodate more I/O – though this is less likely.

Source: Videocardz

Pokdepinion: Perhaps quad-channel RAM is on the books? It seems like it’ll overlap with Ryzen PRO/Embedded chips.