AMD Bergamo & Genoa-X EPYC Server CPUs Crush The Competition With Sheer Performance & Efficiency Dominance

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AMD's EPYC Bergamo & Genoa-X CPUs hit availability yesterday and early reviews have been very positive, citing unbelievable performance in an extremely efficient package.

The AMD Bergamo and Genoa-X CPUs are part of the EPYC 9004 family which includes the Genoa Classic chips too. While Genoa offers up to 96 cores based on the Zen 4 architecture, the Genoa-X chips add up to 1.1 GB of cache with 3D vertical stacking whereas Bergamo makes use of the new Zen 4C cores which are compute density optimized for the cloud and offer up to 128 core with the same core IP as Zen 4.

Some highlighted features of AMD's Genoa-X CPUs include:

Some of the features of Bergamo include:

Now a month after their announcement, AMD has finally launched both Bergamo and Genoa-X to customers and expanded their lineup with several SKUs. In the review published by Phoronix, we see that the EPYC 9754 "Bergamo" and EPYC 9684X "Genoa-X" are now the fastest CPUs around. It looks like the extra core count for Bergamo really helps it push beyond the standard Genoa & also the competition. You are getting double the performance of Intel's top Sapphire Rapids Xeon CPU.

AMD EPYC 9754 "Bergamo" CPU Performance (Image Credits: Phoronix):

AMD EPYC 9684X "Genoa-X" CPU Performance (Image Credits: Phoronix):

Even Genoa-X marked a huge upgrade over the Milan-X chips with over a 2x gain when comparing the 2P platforms. Besides some specific benchmarks, the Milan-X chips were able to handily beat Intel's Xeon Max chips with HBM2e such as the 9480 in 2P configuration with the geometric mean of all results showing almost a 2x gain in performance.

Phoronix on AMD Genoa-X CPUs

For those looking to maximize their HPC performance right now, the AMD EPYC 9684X is easily one of