Back to back good news for AMD fans. Last week it launched the consumer desktop PC version of Ryzen and this week it unveiled the details of its Zen server processor, Naples. Next, in quarter 2, it will launch Naples and new high-performance GPU, Vega.

As written in The Register, AMD unveiled a 32-core, 64-thread CPU, Naples based on its Zen microarchitecture in a raid on Intel's x86 server heartland. Naples targets the high-performance server market and confirms AMD wants to be a significant data center CPU player.

Here is the features of AMD Naples and fastest Intel 2-Socket Server. They both have 2 CPUs. Total cores in Naples are 128 whereas in Intel there are 88. Total memory channels are 16 and 8 respectively. Memory frequency is 2400 and 1866 respectively. Total memory capacity (16 GB DIMMS) in Intel is 384 and in AMD is 512.

AMD Naples is scalable and designed with 32-core System on Chip (SoC) with two threads per core. It handles up to 16 DDR4 DIMMS on 8 memory channels and up to 2 TB memory capacity. In a 2-socket server, AMD provides support up to 32 DIMMS of DDR4 on 16 memory channels that deliver up to 4 TB total memory capacity.

According to Forbes, Naples has four times the number of cores as the Ryzen chip because it is four Ryzen-like eight-core dies assembled in a multi-chip package (MCM). These eight-core dies are connected using AMD's new Infinity Fabric for seamless and linear scaling.

The cache structure is designed to deliver high-performance and energy efficient computation. AMD Naples is capable to directly attach multiple Radeon Instinct GPUs to boost things like VDI and image-processing workloads. In its preview webcast, AMD ran a seismic analysis processing demo with 44 cores 1866 MHz memory to show that Naples is 2x faster than Intel. When it comes to 64 cores, it outperformed Intel system by 2.5x.

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