This enables the part (for a server part) relatively high base frequency of 3.7GHz, boosting up to 4.1GHz and landing with a TDP of 180W, with the part costing $2468. AMD achieves this by essentially populating the part with 8 chiplet dies with each a full 32MB of 元 cache, but only one core enabled per die. Starting off with probably the weirdest CPU in AMD’s EPYC 7003 line-up, the new 72F3 is quite the speciality part in the form of it being an 8-core server CPU, yet still featuring the maximum available platform capabilities as well as the full 256MB of 元 cache. As part of the new platform switch, we’ll cover in a bit, we’re also re-reviewing the 64-core EPYC 7763 and the 32-core EPYC 75F3 – resulting in a few surprises and resolving some of the issues we’ve identified with 3 rd generation Milan in our first review. In terms of new SKUs that we’re testing today, as mentioned, we’ll be looking at AMD new EPYC 7443, 7343 as well as the 72F3, mid- to low core-count SKUs that come at much more affordable price tags compared to the flagship units we had initially reviewed back in March. What's New: EPYC 7443, 7343, 72F3 Low Core Count SKUs (December 18th) The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster (March 15th) AMD 3rd Gen EPYC Milan Review: A Peak vs Per Core Performance Balance (April 6th) Intel 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake SP) Review: Generationally Big, Competitively Small Today’s review will be focused around the new performance numbers of AMD’s EPYC CPUs, for a more comprehensive platform and architecture overview I highly recommend reading our respective initial reviews which go into more detail of the current server CPU landscape:

What’s also changed since our initial review back in March, is the release of Intel’s newer 3 rd generation Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake SP) with our review of the 40-core Xeon 8330 and 28-core Xeon 6330. Since then, we’ve ben able to get our hands on several new mid and lower end SKUs in the form of the new 24-core EPYC 7443, the 16-core 7343, as well as the very curious 8-core EPYC 72F3 which we’ll be reviewing today.

We had initially reviewed the first SKUS back in March, covering the core density optimised 64-core EPYC 7763, EPYC 7713 and the core-performance optimised 32-core EPYC 75F3.

It’s been a few months since AMD first announced their new third generation EPYC Milan server CPU line-up.

Midas civil review