AMD’s Latest EPYC Premieres with BOXX

In its introduction of the new EPYC 9005 Series processors, AMD recommends these 5th gen CPUs as ideal for cloud computing, enterprise, and AI. The chip maker also offers several reasons to support this claim, including that the CPUs will accelerate AI with “their potential to consolidate data centers, perform fast AI Inference, and host GPU-accelerated systems efficiently.” 

AMD also notes that the CPUs will optimize enterprise application performance due to the fact they are “designed around the high-performance, high-efficiency ‘Zen 5’ microarchitecture,” with “more cores to support higher frequencies and faster DRAM” than the previous 9004 series. Also highlighted is that the EPYC 9005 series builds “more efficiency into your computer” to improve consolidation and modernization of IT infrastructure, as well as enabling “advance confidential computing” with the introduction of Trusted IO and other security features. 

Advantages of the AMD EPYC 9005 Series

The advantages offered by the AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors are indeed noteworthy, and if you scour tech sites, you’ll likely discover solid benchmarks to validate AMD claims. But apart from the obvious cloud, AI, and enterprise support, what other software applications and workflows benefit from these new processors?

Let’s start with media and entertainment where BOXX offers dual EPYC 9005 CPUs inside its APEXX M4i workstation for an astounding 256 processor cores. With all those cores, and up to two NVIDIA RTX Ada generation GPUs, M4i delivers world class, multi-threaded performance for digital content creation, complex rendering, broadcast graphics and other demanding workloads. Avid, DaVinci Resolve, Cinema 4D, Autodesk 3ds Max, and Maya are just some of the applications for which this system is ideal. 

AMD EPYC 9005 on Rendering

When it comes to rendering, benchmarks reveal the new EPYC CPUs are up to 2.3X faster than their competition when using V-Ray 6. APEXX M4i also features additional premium components BOXX is known for like up to 2TB of system memory, liquid cooling, and a 1600-watt power supply.  Equipped with all that compute power (and as mentioned at the outset), APEXX M4i naturally excels for AI workloads like deep neural network training. This AMD EPYC 9005 Series workstation is at home at your deskside, but also easily rack mountable for the data center. 

AMD EPYC 9005 in Boxx APEXX P4i Workstations

In addition to the APEXX M4i, you’ll find the new 5th gen AMD EPYC inside the BOXX APEXX P4i workstation. This system may appear identical to the M4i on the outside, but there are key differences within.  APEXX P4i offers a single socket configuration of up to 128 CPU cores, but despite having fewer cores, P4I is also outstanding for the aforementioned media and entertainment applications. More importantly, APEXX P4i is configurable with up to four NVIDIA RTX Ada generation GPUs and with that level of GPU power, this workstation also excels for manufacturing and product design workloads that require rendering and simulation like AutoCAD, Navisworks, SOLIDWORKS Visualize, and SOLIDWORKS Simulation. 

And since we’re on the subject of MPD applications and the topic of this blog is the latest AMD EPYC processors, AMD has shared this benchmark regarding finite element analysis using Ansys LS-DYNA®.   Keep in mind that computer power is key to accelerating the time to market for any new product and within industries like automobile manufacturing, finite element analysis is in use throughout the design phase. On average, AMD EPYC 9005 Series processors accelerated time-to-market 1.63 times faster thanks to:

    • Up to 5.0 GHz CPU frequency boost for compute-intensive workloads

    • 576.0 GB/s per socket memory bandwidth for memory-bound workloads

    • Full width AVX-512 data path for high-precision floating point math. 

APEXX P4i includes up to 1.5TB of system memory, liquid cooling, a 1600-watt power supply, and is also capable of being rack mounted. 

In summation, 5th gen EPYC CPUs are well-suited for AI, enterprise, and cloud computing, but also creative professionals who require maximum computing power from their workstation and can benefit from multi-core performance and multiple GPUs.

To configure your AMD EPYC 9005 Series processor–based workstation, check out the APEXX M4i or APEXX P4i, then call a BOXX performance specialist at 877.877.BOXX.