AMD’s EPYC 8005 Sorano Ditches Zen 5c Entirely, Packs 84 Full Zen 5 Cores While Undercutting Intel’s Xeon by 91% in Integer Performance

AMD launched the EPYC 8005 Sorano server CPU family for edge, telecom, vRAN, and storage workloads.

The lineup uses only Zen 5 cores and spans 8 to 84 cores with 70W to 225W TDP.

The top EPYC 8635P packs 84 cores, 168 threads, 384MB of L3 cache, and a 225W TDP.

AMD says the new chips improve performance and efficiency over EPYC 8004, and can deliver up to 91% higher integer performance than Intel’s Xeon 6716P-B.