From Tom's Hardware: AMD's EPYC Genoa-X server processors with 3D V-Cache will arrive later this year. An alleged engineering sample (ES) of the EPYC 9684X has gone up on sale for $1,300 on a second-hand Chinese selling platform. The Goofish(opens in new tab) seller claims the processor wields 96 cores and 1,152MB of L3 cache.
Genoa-X, which will feature TSMC's 5nm process node, is the follow-up to AMD's previous EPYC Milan-X chips. The upcoming Genoa-X chips will continue to leverage AMD's Zen 4 cores, just like the vanilla Genoa parts, and top out at 96 cores and 192 threads. However, the main attraction is the implementation of AMD's 3D V-Cache to boost Genoa-X's L3 cache over 1GB.
The photographs for the EPYC 9684X reportedly show that the chip pertains to the EPYC 9004-series lineup. In addition, the "110.10 SP5" marking and the picture of the rear of the processor seemingly corroborate that it's at least an EPYC chip and slots into the Socket SP5 (LGA6096). Hardware leaker YuuKi_AnS(opens in new tab) mentioned the EPYC 9684X as the flagship Genoa-X SKU so the chip exists. Unfortunately, the seller didn't share screenshots of the EPYC 9684X.
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