This platform supports the modern data center powered by the 4th generation AMD EPYC 9004 Series Processor based on the AMD SP5 compatible socket infrastructure with a new BIOS. The AMD EPYC 9004 Series Processor is not drop-in compatible to the AMD SP3 socket infrastructure for the EPYC Series
The following features and functions are in the AMD Genoa offering:
- Supports up to 128 AMD Zen 4c cores, 96 AMD Zen4 x86 cores with enhanced performance with 32 MB L3 cache/core. Integrated I/O support for up to 128 lanes with PCI Express 5 on Dell platforms (AMD supports up to 160 I/O lanes with 2P).
- Enhanced Memory Performance with support up to 4800 MT/s DIMMs (1 DPC), 3DS RDIMM support. Enhanced Memory Performance with: Infinity Fabric and Memory Clock Synchronized. Memory Capacity up to 12 channels DDR5 and up to 256 GB/channel support with 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 channel performance optimization options.
- Enhanced physical and virtual security with AMD Infinity Guard that includes silicon-embedded security and virtual features (Secure Memory Encryption and Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) to further improve platform and data security capabilities.