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AMD EPYC 9845 Makes For A Persuasive Upgrade With Performance & Energy Efficiency


With the new AMD EPYC 9005 processors there are SKUs up to 500 Watt with the likes of the EPYC 9965 flagship at 192 cores for Turin Dense cores or 128 Turin classic cores with the EPYC 9755.

But for those looking at upgrading from an existing EPYC 9004 series server and bound by the motherboard BIOS support and/or cooling/power capacity, 400 Watts is a sweet spot. Plus with EPYC Turin supporting the new AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver there is greater headroom in optimizing for power efficiency if so desired. EPYC 9845- The 160-core Turin Dense processor at its default with the amd-pstate-epp driver on Linux 6.13 and the performance CPU frequency scaling governor.

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