AMD Rome rumored to feature 8+1 die configuration

Posted on Tuesday, October 30 2018 @ 13:34 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Take it with a grain of salt, but SemiAccurate says they received confirmation that AMD's EPYC "Rome" design will indeed feature nine dies. The site explains there will be eight eight-core CCXs and one IOX:

In our initial reveal we said there were 9 die or more specifically 8+1 dies with 8x 8-core CCXs and one IOX. What we didn’t know at the time is the arrangement of the cores, interconnects, memory, and socket minutia. We said we were making an educated guess about the arrangement and guessed wrong. That said the end result is Rome is a much better CPU than SemiAccurate thought it would be. It also goes a long way toward explaining the performance domination AMD will have over Intel on the server front starting in about two quarters.

Over on Twitter, some renders are floating around of how this may look like. Do note that the image below is not a leak, it's pure speculation.

ROME: Very crude die size estimates (organic MCM package) pic.twitter.com/VUQtm7ictJ
— K.H. Chia (@chiakokhua) October 30, 2018

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