AMD Processors in the EPYC 4004 Series
Performance and scalability are essential for large enterprises, hyperscalers, data centers, and supercomputers. On the other hand, small enterprises and dedicated hosting providers looking for affordable entry-level server workload solutions are the target market for the AMD EPYC 4004 Series Processors.
These processors have low core counts, a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of as little as 65 watts, and reasonable costs, all while offering the performance, scalability, and dependability that consumers have come to expect from AMD EPYC. This blog talks about the workloads in this market area and the performance advantages of AMD EPYC 4004 CPUs.
AMD EPYC 4004 Series Processors are a dependable choice with boost frequencies up to 5.7 GHz, configurations ranging from 4 to 16 "Zen 4" cores over up to 2 Core Complex Dies (CCDs), and from 8 to 32 threads with Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) enabled. With up to 32 Gbps of die-to-die bandwidth, up to 192GB of DDR5-5200 RAM with ECC enabled, and up to 28 PCIe Gen 5 lanes from the processor with extra lanes available based on system vendor design specifications every AMD EPYC 4004 processor has Gen 3 Infinity Fabric architecture.
AMD EPYC 4584PX Specifications
Up to 64 MB of shared L3 cache can be made available by each CCD, or up to 32 MB for each processor. Low Thermal Design Power (TDP) packages containing all of these are available for 65 to 170 watts.
All AMD EPYC 4004 models use the reliable AM5 socket, which offers flexible deployment options for a variety of computing workloads. The 12-core AMD EPYC 4484PX and the 16-core AMD EPYC 4584PX employ AMD 3D V-Cache die stacking technology, which doubles the maximum L3 cache to 128 MB per unit.
A feature is only useful to the extent that it increases performance and efficiency. Strong systems that can manage heavy workloads while controlling acquisition and operating costs are essential for small businesses and hosting providers. Apart from the previously described enhanced memory and I/O capabilities, servers equipped with high-performance AMD EPYC 4004 CPUs offer competitive cost-to-performance ratios for crucial customer applications.
Let's examine the exceptional performance and value that 16-core 4th Gen AMD EPYC 4004 processors offer to the market by contrasting their performance and potential cost savings with those of the competitors.
Examples of Utilization
In general, the AMD EPYC 4004 CPU is adaptable, strong, and cost-effective for a range of computing tasks, including conventional commercial applications and compute-intensive jobs. Among the examples are:General computing: AMD EPYC 4004 CPUs perform well on workloads such as web serving, DNS management, file sharing, printing, email hosting, messaging, CRM, and enterprise resource planning (ERP).
Web serving and e-commerce: AMD EPYC 4004 CPUs are particularly well-suited for applications that require scalability and reliability, such web serving.
Applications requiring a lot of processing power: AMD EPYC 4004 processors can handle demanding applications and speed up compilation thanks to their 16 cores and 32 SMT threads.
Gaming: Thanks to the strong "Zen4" CPUs, even the most demanding games operate smoothly.
Cost of Processor
Small and medium-sized businesses must strike a compromise between price and performance, particularly when selecting processors for server development. Processor costs are a significant consideration in this situation. Here, it will use the following to show how much less expensive AMD EPYC 4004 CPUs are in comparison to their competitors.- $699 for a 16-core AMD EPYC 4584PX, or around $43.69 per core
- Eight-core Intel Xeon E-2388G processor: $606 (about $75.75) per core
- Intel Xeon E-2488 8-core processor: $606 per core, or around $75.75)
Stated differently, an AMD EPYC 4584PX CPU core costs just about 58% more than an Intel Xeon core. These prices demonstrate the AMD EPYC 4004 processors' competitive pricing and industry-leading performance characteristics, which makes them a desirable option for small and medium-sized businesses looking to minimize their server infrastructure expenses.
Essential Workload Leadership
A single-socket, 8-core Intel Xeon E-2488 system and a single-socket, 16-core AMD EPYC 4584PX system are compared; the latter achieves a performance uplift of around 1.73x SPECrate 2017_int_rate_base. A roughly 1.50x performance boost is also attained with the same AMD EPYC 4584PX and Intel Xeon E-2488 CPU.
Benefits of Energy Efficiency
Energy expenses are a problem for large data centers and small to medium-sized organizations. The standard for evaluating the energy efficiency of volume server-class systems is the SPECpower_ssj 2008 benchmark.The 4th generation AMD EPYC 4004 CPUs outperform SPECpower_ssj 2008 in terms of power efficiency.
An AMD EPYC 4584PX 16-core system that uses about 1.81 times less energy than an Intel system. Once more, the AMD EPYC 4004 CPU provides a significant 1.57-fold boost in performance per CPU dollar.
Java Server-Side
In order to evaluate server-side Java programs, the SPECjbb 2015 benchmark replicates a corporate IT environment that oversees online activities, data mining tasks, and point-of-sale transactions. Because Java is so widely used, this benchmark is important to JVM providers, hardware manufacturers, researchers, and academia. The performance metrics used by SPECjbb 2015 are max-jOPS, which measures maximum throughput without strong response time requirements, and critical-jOPS, which measures maximum throughput with reaction time limits.
In the SPECjbb 2015 composite critical jOPS metric, a single-socket 16-core AMD EPYC 4584PX system achieves ~2.59x the performance of the same Intel processor at a performance/CPU dollar result of up to ~2.24x, and ~2.02x the performance of a single-socket 8-core Intel Xeon E-2388G system.
Transaction Processing for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
Regardless of operating system or hardware, the online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark TPC Benchmark C outlines a set of functional requirements that are shared by all transaction processing systems. The HammerDB benchmark tool was used in the development and generation of the TPROC-C workload.
The outcomes of this open-source workload are not comparable to published TPC-C results because they do not follow the TPC-C Benchmark Standard. Rather, the TPC-C Benchmark Standard serves as their source of generation. However, HammerDB TPROC-C is a helpful tool for quickly comparing databases, assessing how well a database system performs, and optimizing a system.
A 16-core AMD EPYC 4584PX single-socket system that outperforms the same Intel processor by roughly 1.50x MySQL TPROC-C TPM performance and by about 1.30x performance/CPU dollar.
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