AMD is not expected to introduce the Zen 5 core architecture anytime soon, but it seems that the company is already testing the first engineering samples in the labs. Moore’s Law is Dead shared a screenshot of the system with Zen 5 hardware running a popular benchmark test, and these details may give clues about the performance of the Zen 5 architecture.Engineering example by EPYC Turin
First of all, let’s mention that the processor in question is not a Ryzen series processor, but a dual-socket Zen 5 EPYC processor. AMD plans to launch EPYC Turin processors next year, which is likely an engineering example of the next generation. On the other hand, when we look at the screenshot, we see that this mysterious Zen 5 architecture EPYC Turin system has a total of 128 cores and 256 threads. So there are 64 cores and 128 threads in a single socket.
However, each chip seems to have the same amount of L2 and L3 cache as the Zen 4 cores, but there is an upgrade to L1 cache. L1 cache is experiencing a 25% increase from 4 KB per core in Zen 4 to 80 KB in Zen 4. Meanwhile, L2 cache is 64MB per chip (1MB per core) and L3 cache is 256MB (4MB per core). The clock speeds are seen as 2.3 GHz and 3.85 GHz, respectively. Frankly, these values are too high for an engineering sample of a processor that will be released more than a year later.Performance is very demanding
On the performance side, it seems that the dual AMD EPYC Turin system scored approximately 123,000 points in the Cinebench R23 test, which is a very pale result. Compared to existing dual 96-core EPYC Genoa chips, this early engineering EPYC Turin 64-core processor is up to 15 percent faster.In AMD’s official Zen 5 statements, it is stated that there are advanced performance and efficiency targets and that the processors will come with a completely rebuilt microarchitecture. There is also an emphasis on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Although all these test results point to a monster, it should not be forgotten that all these are rumors. More detailed information will emerge in the future.
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