NVIDIA and AMD form partnership around 5th generation EPYC processors

AMD e NVIDIA entered into a strategic partnership around the HPC market, high performance computing. The fifth generation of chips EPYCcodename Turinwill be integrated into the clusters HGX e MGX from NVIDIA. A combination of AMD CPUs with NVIDIA GPUs.

The server market is extremely important for both, especially at this time with the boom in AI. NVIDIA is the leading provider of dedicated solutions for AI inference. NVIDIA is the big name in this market of graphics chip solutions that power servers from reference companies in this segment, such as OpenAI, responsible for ChatPT.

AMD has also been promoting important advances in the sector. Not only in solutions around CPU, but also GPU, with the line Instinct. Lisa Su, who recently completed 10 years as CEO of AMD, said that the company is focused on advancing its participation in the data center segment. This market already represents more than 50% of AMD’s revenue. EPYC chips are already used in more than 350 OEM platforms, and their market share has increased to 34%.

The fifth generation of EPYC is developed based on the Zen 5 architecture and will be offered in configurations that will vary between 8 and 192 cores. Divided into two families: TuriN (options with up to 128 Zen 5 cores and up to 512 megabytes of L3 cache) and Turin Dense (options with up to 192 Zen 5c cores and up to 384 megabytes of L3 cache)

The socket will be the same as the EPYC 9004, the SP5. The chips work with DDR5 chips in 12-channel mode and the TDP is 500W.