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AMD quietly launched an interesting addition to the EPYC line, which Servethehome spotted yesterday. The EPYC 7261 has just 8 cores and 16 threads. But, unlike the existing EPYC 7251, the 7261 has all 64MB of its L3 cache enabled, as well as a significantly higher base clock, a TDP of 170W instead of 120W, and support for DDR4 2666. For reference, AMD's 8 core Ryzen desktop CPUs only have 16MB of L3, and Intel's new i9-9800X has 16.5MB. That is a truly massive amount of cache for an 8-core CPU, which makes the 7261 an interesting option for expensive, I/O intensive software that's licensed by the core.
This chip quietly launched in June 2018, but we missed it since there was no announcement of the part. We have seen it available from major OEMs such as Dell EMC, HPE, and Supermicro. Pricing wise, we are still looking to get the official figure, but it seems to be a ~$150 price increase on most configurators over the EPYC 7251 which would put it about in the price range of the AMD EPYC 7281 16 core 32MB part.
This chip quietly launched in June 2018, but we missed it since there was no announcement of the part. We have seen it available from major OEMs such as Dell EMC, HPE, and Supermicro. Pricing wise, we are still looking to get the official figure, but it seems to be a ~$150 price increase on most configurators over the EPYC 7251 which would put it about in the price range of the AMD EPYC 7281 16 core 32MB part.