AMD Unleashes 128-Core Epyc Bergamo Processor, Outperforms Intel’s Priciest CPU

AMD has announced its first cloud optimized processor, the EPYC Bergamo, which boasts up to 128 Zen 4c cores and 82 billion transistors in a single socket. This new core is smaller by 35% and cheaper to produce, using the same 5nm process as the original Zen 4 core, and offers the highest vCPU density available. Bergamo promises performance gains of up to 160% compared to its closest competitor, Intel’s Xeon Platinum 8490H, which sells for $17,000 with only 60-cores. AMD’s CEO, Lisa Su, also claims that the chip delivers 80x extra performance per watt compared to its Intel rival. Zen4c cores are fully compatible with the SP5 socket which means they support 12-channel DDR5 memory, PCIe Gen 5.0, and multi-threading. The 9754 is the first of many SKUs with other models with higher frequencies likely to emerge depending on how the competitive landscape evolves. The launch of Bergamo comes a day after Intel sent a press release that stated its superiority across a range of AI-heavy benchmarks, with, it says, 80% greater inference throughput in AI use cases.