AMD EPYC 8635P "Sorano" Benchmarks: Zen 5 Flagship Offers Drop-In Upgrade for EPYC 8004 Servers
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Summary
AMD has launched the EPYC 8005 "Sorano" series, the Zen 5 successor to the EPYC 8004 "Siena" line-up. The EPYC 8635P is the flagship model with 84 cores and 168 threads, offering a drop-in upgrade path for existing EPYC 8004 servers after a BIOS update. This review benchmarks the top-end 84-core Sorano CPU, highlighting its performance for single-socket server applications.
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With the EPYC 8005 product stack ranging from 8 to 84 cores and being drop-in upgrades for EPYC 8004 servers after a BIOS update, these are quite some interesting processors for those after a single socket, performant server.
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