AMD ZEN based server chip, pictured

[looncraz]

3 hours ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

That die looks way too big. Intel threw 24 cores on socket 2011, which is way smaller than this thing. this is KNL size and let's nother even imagine comparing core counts there.

 

But cool overall.

 

What we're looking at is not the die, but the CPU package.  Rumor has it that there may be a 32 core + GPU + HBM version planned for this same socket... and also eight memory channels.  You need room for all of that.

 

The 32 core version is also likely to be using MCM, as Drak3 mentioned, which also takes more room.

[Granular]

On 12/10/2016 at 5:34 PM, Sauron said:

512Mb of L3 cache? If that's true it's insane.

OP said 512 mb (millibits), so half a bit. That's not so much insane as it is impossible.

[TheRandomness]

2 minutes ago, Granular said:

OP said 512 mb (millibits), so half a bit. That's not so much insane as it is impossible.

And that was wrong. Read through the first page, there's a post concerning this. 

[Sauron]

25 minutes ago, Granular said:

OP said 512 mb (millibits), so half a bit. That's not so much insane as it is impossible.

Only if you want to be pedantic

[mariushm]

Each cpu die has 8 cores, 4 MB L2 cache and 16 MB L3 cache.

 

The 32 cores / 64 threads  has 4 such dies so there's going to be 16 MB L2 cache in total and 64 MB L3 cache (512 megabits).