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AMD EPYC 9655 Benchmarks Show The Terrific Generational Gains With 5th Gen EPYC

With the AMD EPYC 9005 'Turin' series launch earlier this month there was launch-day benchmark review results for the EPYC 9575F, EPYC 9755, and EPYC 9965 processors in looking at that frequency optimized SKU, the new flagship 128-core Turin 'classic' core model, and the new flagship 192-core Turin 'dense' core SKU, respectively.

Now with the EPYC 9655 that launched earlier this month for 96-cores / 128-threads of Zen 5 Turin classic cores is a 2.6GHz base clock, 4.5GHz max boost clock, the same 384MB L3 cache, 400 Watt default TDP, DDR5-6000 / DDR5-6400 memory support, and an initial 1KU list price of $11,852 USD. With continuing to use the Socket SP5, the EPYC 9655 is drop-in compatible with existing Genoa motherboards after a BIOS update. Or similarly for those that may have just the rack power/cooling capacity for handling 400 Watt CPUs, the EPYC 9655 is an interesting fit.

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