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1 EPYC-049: AMD EPYC 9754 is a 128 core dual threaded CPU and in a 2 socket server with 1 thread per vCPU delivers 512 vCPUs per EPYC powered server which is more than any Ampere or 4 socket Intel CPU based server as of 05/23/2023.
2 SP5-143A: SPECrate®2017_int_base comparison based on performing system published scores from www.spec.org as of 6/13/2013. 2P AMD EPYC 9754 scores 1950 SPECrate®2017_int_base
www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2023q2/cpu2017-20230522-36617.html is higher than all other 2P servers. 1P AMD EPYC 9754 scores 981 SPECrate®2017_int_base score (981.4 score/socket)
www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2023q2/cpu2017-20230522-36613.html is higher per socket than all other servers. SPEC®, SPEC CPU®, and SPECrate® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org for more information.
3 SP5-165: The EPYC 9684X CPU is the world’s highest performance x86 server CPU for technical computing, comparison based on SPEC.org publications as of 6/13/2023 measuring the score, rating or jobs/day for each of SPECrate®2017_fp_base (SP5-009E), Altair AcuSolve (https://www.amd.com/en/processors/server-tech-docs/amd-epyc-9004x-pb-altair-acusolve.pdf), Ansys Fluent (https://www.amd.com/en/processors/server-tech-docs/amd-epyc-9004x-pb-ansys-fluent.pdf), OpenFOAM (https://www.amd.com/en/processors/server-tech-docs/amd-epyc-9004x-pb-openfoam.pdf), Ansys LS-Dyna (https://www.amd.com/en/processors/server-tech-docs/amd-epyc-9004x-pb-ansys-ls-dyna.pdf), and Altair Radioss (https://www.amd.com/en/processors/server-tech-docs/amd-epyc-9004x-pb-altair-radioss.pdf) application test case simulations average speedup on 2P servers running 96-core EPYC 9684X vs top 2P performance general-purpose 56-core Intel Xeon Platinum 8480+ or top-of-stack 60-core Xeon 8490H based server for technical computing performance leadership. “Technical Computing” or “Technical Computing Workloads” as defined by AMD can include: electronic design automation, computational fluid dynamics, finite element analysis, seismic tomography, weather forecasting, quantum mechanics, climate research, molecular modeling, or similar workloads. Results may vary based on factors including silicon version, hardware and software configuration and driver versions. SPEC®, SPECrate® and SPEC CPU® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. See www.spec.org for more information.
4 MI300-09 - The AMD Instinct™ MI300X accelerator is based on AMD CDNA™ 3 5nm FinFet process technology with 3D chiplet stacking, utilizes high speed AMD Infinity Fabric technology, has 192 GB HBM3 memory capacity (vs. 80GB for Nvidia Hopper H100) with 5.218 TFLOPS of sustained peak memory bandwidth performance, higher than the highest bandwidth Nvidia Hopper H100 GPU.
5 MI300-07K: Measurements by internal AMD Performance Labs as of June 2, 2023 on current specifications and/or internal engineering calculations. Large Language Model (LLM) run or calculated with FP16 precision to determine the minimum number of GPUs needed to run the Falcon (40B parameter) models. Tested result configurations: AMD Lab system consisting of 1x EPYC 9654 (96-core) CPU with 1x AMD Instinct™ MI300X (192GB HBM3, OAM Module) 750W accelerator tested at FP16 precision. Server manufacturers may vary configuration offerings yielding different results.
Contact: Aaron Grabein AMD Communications (512) 602-8950 Aaron.grabein@amd.com Suresh Bhaskaran AMD Investor Relations (408) 749-2845 Suresh.Bhaskaran@amd.com
