News Zen 5 comes to small businesses: AMD unveils EPYC 4005-series processors

[Admin]

AMD launches Zen 5-based EPYC 4005-series 'Grado' processors for entry-level AM5 servers, offering up to 16 cores, robust security, and superior performance-per-dollar compared to Intel's entry-level Xeon.

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[Firestone]

This sounds cool and all, but as someone who just made a new home server two months back built around a Ryzen 9900X which I got for $380 USD, I'm struggling to see what the appeal of these is meant to be. Something only business will really use? The features vs Ryzen 9000 looks identical. The prices are similar too. My Ryzen 9900X has a 65W Eco Mode so the TDP is the same as well. Same PCIe lanes, similar memory support... What am I missing?

 

[Notton]

This vid is more informative.

It supports ECC, UDIMM, TSME
And the mobos for it are better oriented for a server.

 

[bit_user]

This sounds cool and all, but as someone who just made a new home server two months back built around a Ryzen 9900X which I got for $380 USD, I'm struggling to see what the appeal of these is meant to be.

In addition to what @Notton said, AMD offers official ECC support on them. Also, EPYC & Xeon-branded CPUs tend to be better binned.

 

[Firestone]

"Official ECC support" is definitely a strange thing to tout when Ryzen has supported ECC since at least the 3000 series. I used it with the Ryzen 4000 series and I have it now with my 9900X

 

[bit_user]

"Official ECC support" is definitely a strange thing to tout when Ryzen has supported ECC since at least the 3000 series. I used it with the Ryzen 4000 series and I have it now with my 9900X

It has to do with a weird stance AMD has taken on ECC, where they basically say of non-Pro Ryzens that it's entirely incumbent on the motherboard vendor to validate.