AMD’s latest AM5 platform has been around for some time for the consumer CPU market but today’s the big day as the server family is receiving their own AM5 chips as well – let’s welcome the new EPYC 4004 series CPUs.
To start everything off, let’s have a simple spec check first.
Model | Cores | Base Clock/Boost Clock | L3 Cache | TDP | Price |
EPYC 4584PX | 16 | 4.2GHz/5.7GHz | 128MB | 120W | US$699 |
| EPYC 4464PX | 12 | 4.4GHz/5.6GHz | US$599 | ||
EPYC 4564P | 16 | 4.5GHz/5.7GHz | 64MB | 170W | US$699 |
| EPYC 4464P | 12 | 3.7GHz/5.4GHz | 65W | US$429 | |
EPYC 4364P | 8 | 4.5GHz/5.4GHz | 32MB | 105W | US$399 |
| EPYC 4344P | 3.8GHz/5.3GHz | 65W | US$329 | ||
EPYC 4244P | 6 | 3.8GHz/5.1GHz | 16MB | US$229 | |
| EPYC 4144P | 4 | 3.8GHz/5.1GHz | US$149 |
Starting from the basic numbers, the EPYC 4004 series is kind of similar to the current Ryzen 7000 series offerings ranging from 4 cores up to 16 cores (The 4-core variant is kind of the outlier though), a 64MB L3 cache for most of the SKUs except a select few alongside 5.7GHz boost clock and 28 PCIe 5.0 lanes at the maximum.
With ECC memory support of up to 192GB DDR5-5200, the main point that drives them for professional use is still those “EPYC Exclusive” features like RAIDXpert2, additional layers of hardware security protections, and Transparent Memory Encryption (TSME) to give owners a comfortable environment to run even the most sensitive data at will.
Not only that, server-grade products often get extended availability and after-sale support from AMD themselves as well as an expansive range of software like tailored server operating systems, BMC’s suite of applications, and more.
All in all, Team Red is positioning it to be one of the best choices for both passive and active computing from things like backup and server storages to dedicated processing servers involving raw numbers/images/videos, and even simple cloud servers.
