Today, at its financial analyst day, AMD lifted the veil on a number of new products based on the company's Zen CPU architecture and next generation Vega GPU architecture. AMD CEO Lisa Su lifted a very large server chip in the air that the company now has branded EPYC. AMD is going for the jugular when it comes to comparisons with Intel's Xeon family, providing up to 128 PCI Express 3.0 lanes, which Su says "allows you to connect more GPUs directly to the CPU than any other solution in the industry." EPYC currently scales to 32 cores/64 threads per socket and supports up to 8-channel DDR4 memory (16 DIMMs per CPU, up to 4TB total memory support). AMD also confirmed the previously rumored Threadripper CPU, a 16-core/32-thread beast of a chip for the enthusiast desktop PC space. AMD's Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect for Radeon Technologies Group, also unveiled Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, a workstation and pro graphics card targeted at VR content creation, visualization and machine learning. Radeon Vega Frontier Edition offers 13 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput, 25 TFLOPS of FP16 performance and is powered by 64 computer units and 16GB of HMB2 memory for about 480GB/sec of memory bandwidth. The cards are expected to ship in June but there was no word just yet on when consumer versions of Vega will hit. Finally, AMD also shared info on Ryzen Mobile, which will incorporate both the Zen CPU architecture and an integrated Vega GPU core. Compared to AMD's 7th generation APUs, AMD claims Ryzen Mobile will up CPU performance by 50 percent while offering 40 percent better graphics performance. AMD also claimed those gains will not come at the expense of battery life, with a 50 percent reduction in power consumption, which reportedly will pave the way for faster, longer lasting premium notebooks and 2-in-1 devices. http://hothardware.com/news/amd-naples-zen-architecture-makes-epyc-debut-for-datacenter-market EPYC scales to 32 cores/64 threads and supports up to 8-channel DDR4 memory (16 DIMMs per CPU, up to 4TB total memory support) http://hothardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-9-threadripper-cpu-lineup-41ghz-16-core-32-thread-beast Threadripper CPUs, a fitting name considering Ryzen's stellar multi-threading performance. - Starting at the bottom, there will be two 10-core parts with 20 threads, including the Ryzen 9 1955 clocked at 3.1GHz (base) to 3.7GHz (boost) and Ryzen 9 1955x clocked at 3.6GHz to 4GHz. Both will have a max TPD of 125W. - There will also be two 12-core CPUs, both with 24 threads and also with a max TPD of 125W. These will consist of the Ryzen 9 1956 clocked at 3GHz to 3.7GHz, and the Ryzen 9 1956X clocked at 3.2GHz to 3.8GHz. - Next up are three 14-core/28-thread chips starting with the Ryzen 9 1976X clocked at 3.6GHz to 4.1GHz with a 140W TPD. Just above that is the Ryzen 9 1977 clocked at 3.2GHz to 3.7GHz, also with a 140W TPD. And finally there is the Ryzen 9 1977X clocked at 3.5GHz to 4GHz, but with a 155W TDP. - That leaves us with two 16-core/32-thread beasts. The first is the Ryzen 9 1998. It will come clocked at 3.2GHz to 3.6GHz and have a 155W TDP, and the second is the Ryzen 9 1998X clocked at 3.5GHz to 3.9GHz, also with a 155W TDP. All of these processors are said to support 44 PCIe lanes. If that turns out to be true, it would be a big advantage for AMD, as Intel typically reserves the most PCIe lanes for only its top (and most expensive) enthusiasts SKUs. That is rumored to again be the case with Intel's forthcoming Core i9lineup consisting of two SKUs supporting 44 PCIe lanes and two others supporting just 28 PCIe lanes. http://hothardware.com/news/amd-radeon-rx-vega-unveiled-13-tflops-16gb-hbm2-4k60 Compute Units: 64 Single Precision compute performance (FP32): ~13 TFLOPS Half Precision compute performance (FP16): ~25 TFLOPS Pixel Fillrate: ~90 Gpixels/sec Memory Capacity: 16 GBs of High Bandwidth Cache Memory Bandwidth: ~480 GB/s http://hothardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-mobile-to-marry-zen-with-vega Also of interest to professionals, AMD announced Ryzen Pro, a new line of workstation-class processors for video creation, 3D rendering, and other related chores. AMD describes these processors as its "dedicated offering for the commercial market."