AMD is expanding its Epyc Genoa portfolio with a couple of new chips that target specific workloads where cache is important.

At the Data Center and AI Technology Premiere in San Francisco, USA, Dan McNamara, SVP of AMD’s Server Business Unit, presents some new variants of Epyc’s fourth-generation data center chips. This is not about Epyc Bergamo. AMD announced these chips at the same event and are aimed at cloud-native workloads. McNamara introduces AMD Epyc Genoa-X, designed specifically for product development.

Genoa-X succeeds Milan-X and follows the same philosophy. The chip is based on the well-known Zen 4 architecture, but has significantly more cache. By incorporating AMD’s second-generation 3D V-Cache technology, more than 1GB of cache memory fits on a 96-core GPU. The chip was developed for workloads from Altair, Ansys, Cadence, Dassault, Siemens and Synopsys, among others.

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AMD introduces three Epyc Genoa X processors.

The new chips are available immediately. Microsoft is now announcing Azure HBv4 and HX instances for the cloud and Dell is a launch partner with some new PowerEdge servers. AMD notes that the chips are ideal for niche applications where the large cache can boost performance by more than 70 percent.