Today AMD announced that it has new embedded processors. This is the “new” AMD EPYC Embedded 8004 Series which might seem like a rebadge of the AMD EPYC 8004 “Siena” Launched last year. What is neat is that this generation has a 12-core SKU that can drop its configurable TDP down to only 70W.
AMD EPYC Embedded 8004 Series Launches with a New 70W SKU
Here is the SKU stack for the series which comprises six SKUs. Generally “Embedded” at AMD means things like having a longer lifecycle but they tend to be very similar to their non-embedded counterparts such as the EPYC 8534P we have above.
Based on the AMD EPYC Siena platform, we get the I/O die with half of the memory controllers of the big EPYC 9004 I/O die at 12, 96 PCIe Gen5 lanes, and Zen 4c compute cores. The cTDP range on the top four parts is 155W to 225W. The EPYC 8124P is 120-150W. Perhaps most interesting is the AMD EPYC 8C24P listed at a 100W TDP, but with a cTDP range of 70-100W.
Here is the list of the original EPYC 8004 series including the PN parts with their extended operating temperatures, but are not the embedded series.
The addition of the Embedded 12-core 70-100W TDP part is really neat in this generation.
Final Words
Slotted between the AMD EPYC 4004 series and EPYC 9004 series, the EPYC 8004 “Siena” platform is nice because it gives a large number of cores to a platform that costs less than the EPYC 9004 series, but that is more expandable than the EPYC 4004 series. For many applications, things like connectivity are more important than achieving maximum clock speed on a CPU. With the AMD EPYC Embedded 8004 series, the company is signaling that “Siena” is coming to the embedded market. To be clear, we think the EPYC 8004 is a stellar platform.
We do wish, however, that AMD did a bit more branding work to differentiate why a chip is in its Embedded line.
This could be used for some nice IPS firewalls.
The commercial temperature 24-core part is pretty cheap compared to the 24-core TR 7960X. Obviously the frequencies are lower but in a use case that exercises all cores you wouldn’t notice. Would be a respectable workstation platform.
1. MSRP Price difference to a 9xxx part isn’t _that_ great.
2. SP6 MoBos aren’t that much cheaper than SP5
I’m sure big customers pricing is far from MSRP but that has nothing to do with mere mortals that would care to buy something like this for themselves.