News AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU for Microsoft Azure with HBM3 memory – CPU with 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3 may be repurposed MI300C, four chips hi...

[Admin]

Microsoft’s new Azure HBv5 virtual machines use a custom AMD CPU that looks an awful lot like the rumored MI300C that never officially launched.

AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU for Microsoft Azure with HBM3 memory – CPU with 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3 may be repurposed MI300C, four chips hi... : Read more

 

[bolweval]

But does it run Team Fortress 2?

 

[newtechldtech]

Where is our custom desktop Ryzen 9950X with 64GB HBMx please AMD ? Or even better with included GPU ?

 

[User of Computers]

Where is our custom desktop Ryzen 9950X with 64GB HBMx please AMD ? Or even better with included GPU ?

Strix Halo is the closest we're going to get to that pipe dream, I'm afraid.

 

[Makaveli]

Where is our custom desktop Ryzen 9950X with 64GB HBMx please AMD ? Or even better with included GPU ?

lol you got 5k to spend that.

 

[Stomx]

Would be great to see the benchmarks of this interesting processor like those this site or Phoronix are doing. Just two such chips would bring you pretty powerful workstation delivering 7 million core-hours per year and if your app is memory-bound one then much more than that.
If you are currently using your University supercomputer you know that this is typically way more than you would get from the most University supercomputer centers which became extremely busy lately. And with 8 such processors you would 9 out of 10 of your CPU time requests just completely forget larger supercomputers

 

[LibertyWell]

Microsoft, Apple, and Google are the last companies who should have access to this type of tech and yet they are first in line.

Humanity is good and well f——-

 

[User of Computers]

Microsoft, Apple, and Google are the last companies who should have access to this type of tech and yet they are first in line.

Without companies like these, products such as this have no reason to exist.

 

[User of Computers]

And with 8 such processors you would 9 out of 10 of your CPU time requests just completely forget larger supercomputers

Depends on what you're doing.

 

[redgarl]

Where is our custom desktop Ryzen 9950X with 64GB HBMx please AMD ? Or even better with included GPU ?

If you want to shove 5000$ for it, go ahead...

However, AMD knows it is not going to be a profitable endeavor since nobody from the Client Compute Group is going to buy one of those.

 

[newtechldtech]

If you want to shove 5000$ for it, go ahead...

However, AMD knows it is not going to be a profitable endeavor since nobody from the Client Compute Group is going to buy one of those.

it would be around $1500.

And AMD does not care about delivering such tech , because what they have are selling like hotcakes , nothing to do about cost.

 

[bit_user]

When paired with a CPU, the HBM3 fulfills a similar role as 3D V-Cache. Still, instead of expanding the pool of L3 cache, it effectively adds a massive L4 cache with even greater bandwidth and presumably much worse latency. However, the latter isn't as important in certain types of workloads.

@PaulAlcorn , did AMD actually say that, or is it just a guess? I'd be really surprised if these support DDR5, unless that's also a feature of the MI300A that I missed (but from a bit of searching, just now, I still don't think so).

Intel Xeon Max provide 128 GB of HBM that can indeed be used exclusively or as a L4 cache for additional DDR5 memory. However, I believe the I/O die AMD used is probably the same from their MI300A and I doubt that supports DDR5, since it's designed to sit on an OAM daughter board - and those are much too small to host DDR5 DIMMs, as well.

 

[bit_user]

Where is our custom desktop Ryzen 9950X with 64GB HBMx please AMD ? Or even better with included GPU ?

When you get on package DRAM in a desktop CPU, it will almost certainly be of the LPDDR variety, not HBM. An APU doesn't need HBM levels of bandwidth and HBM is much more expensive (up to 3x, according to Nvidia). Plus, I think LPDDR memory is lower power and therefore easier to cool.

 

[Master_Shifu]

But does it run Team Fortress 2?

Azure HBv5 VMs are indeed impressive for high-performance computing tasks, they are specifically designed for memory-intensive workloads like computational fluid dynamics and molecular dynamics.

Team Fortress 2, being an older game with less demanding hardware requirements, is unlikely to benefit significantly from the specialized architecture of the HBv5 VMs. You ca learn minimum ad recommend TF2 requirements here: https://tradeit.gg/blog/team-fortress-2-system-requirements/