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For the past year, AMD has been busy rolling out multiple waves of Ryzen hardware. From high-finish consumer desktops, to sixteen-core enthusiast and workstation designs, to its new APUs for the budget-conscious enthusiast, AMD has been firing on all cylinders for the first time in, well, a very long fourth dimension. Now the company is pushing alee with another set up of parts, this time intended for the embedded market.

AMD is announcing 2 new embedded families today: The Epyc 3000 series, an embedded solution that builds off its server family of fries and the Ryzen V1000, an embedded APU with a Vega 11 GPU within it.

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I affair to know is that the image above is a representation of an eight-core CPU. A 16-cadre CPU would utilise the same cluster of 2 eight-cadre SoCs with two dummy cores to provide heat spreader stability. There are, yet, certain differences betwixt a Threadripper or Ryzen CPU and these fries. For starters, AMD doesn't enable 10GigE networking on its desktop parts, but clearly baked information technology into Epyc from Solar day 1. Other features, like the high PCIe iii.0 lane counts or the quad memory channels are identical to what Threadripper offers.

RyzenV1000

Next upwards, we've got the Ryzen V1000. Based on the recently released Ryzen five 2400G, this scrap combines a formidable graphics cadre with solid CPU performance. Depending on your multimedia needs, the Ryzen V1000 should drop neatly into place.

Below, we've compiled AMD's various performance claims and market SKUs. You tin can click on each slide to open information technology in a new window.

It's an impressive showing for AMD, all the style around. When the company isn't outright challenging Intel in sheer performance, it delivers far more computing horsepower per dollar than its much larger rival.

How Important is Embedded to AMD'south Long-Range Plans?

Right now, AMD's server market share is still minuscule and the embedded market doesn't traditionally ignite a lot of excitement in the broader user community. Both of those facts are starting to change, however, particularly every bit more and more companies expect to deploy cloud services and border computing (so-chosen considering information technology happens at the edge of the network) is a rapidly growing market. Cloud computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are all major growth markets these days, and AMD believes the Ryzen V1000 or Epyc 3000 can be a major part of that.

Overall toll and positioning look solid. The Epyc Embedded 3451 may not exist as fast equally the Xeon-D 2191, but it features higher base frequencies, higher RAM capacities, higher official DRAM speeds, more PCIe three.0 lanes, and 8 10GigE ports, all for $880. The Xeon-D 2191 has a listing price of $2,407. It'due south not hard to see which fleck presents the better price/functioning ratio.

AMD is playing rather canny in its embedded and server market. Instead of trying to beat Intel in absolute performance at every price point, it's offering like performance at a much lower cost. Even if nosotros presume the Xeon D-2191 is 1.3x faster than the Epyc 3451, it's also 2.74x more expensive. That'south not a favorable ratio, and comparing these ii fries lonely ignores the fact that AMD has a 12-cadre CPU priced at $450 compared with an eight-cadre Intel Xeon-D. There'south a TDP difference — 95W for AMD, 65W for Intel — merely if your cooling organization can handle it, AMD is going to deliver amend performance overall. A l percent gap in available cores is tough to close, especially when the Xeon-D-2412IT has the aforementioned boost clock and a slightly lower base of operations clock.

AMD seems bullish on its efforts to option upwardly more than marketplace share for the Epyc 3000 and Ryzen V1000 family. We won't know for awhile if the company succeeds, but they seem to have a solid combination of college performing fries and better price/performance ratios.