The AMD EPYC 9654 has 96 cores with 192 threads and is based on the 4. gen of the AMD EPYC series. The processor uses a mainboard with the SP5 socket and was released in Q4/2022. The AMD EPYC 9654 scores 1,529 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 79,486 points.
CPU lineage
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The AMD EPYC 9654 has 96 CPU cores and can calculate 192 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the AMD EPYC 9654 is 2.40 GHz (3.70 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.
CPU Cores / Threads:
96 / 192
Core architecture:
normal
Cores:
96x Zen 4
Hyperthreading / SMT:
Yes
Overclocking:
No
Frequency:
2.40 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):
3.70 GHz
Turbo Frequency (96 Cores):
3.55 GHz
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
AI hardware:
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AI specifications:
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Internal Graphics
The AMD EPYC 9654 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the AMD EPYC 9654 uses the no iGPU, which has -- texture shaders and -- execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
GPU name:
no iGPU
GPU frequency:
GPU (Turbo):
No turbo
Compute units:
--
Shader:
--
Hardware Raytracing:
No
Release date:
Max. displays:
Generation:
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Direct X:
--
Technology:
Max. GPU Memory:
--
Frame Generation:
No
Hardware codec support
A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
h265 / HEVC (8 bit):
No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit):
No
h264:
No
VP8:
No
VP9:
No
AV1:
No
AVC:
No
VC-1:
No
JPEG:
No
Memory & PCIe
The processor can use up to 6144 GB memory in 12 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 76.8 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.
Memory type:
Memory bandwidth:
DDR5-4800
76.8 GB/s
Max. Memory:
6144 GB
Memory channels:
12
ECC:
Yes
PCIe:
5.0 x 128
PCIe Bandwidth:
504.1 GB/s
Thermal Management
The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 360 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.
TDP (PL1 / PBP):
360 W
TDP (PL2):
--
TDP up:
400 W
TDP down:
320 W
Tjunction max.:
100 °C
Technical details
The AMD EPYC 9654 is made in 5 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 480.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the AMD EPYC 9654 have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
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The AMD EPYC 9654 comes from the fourth generation of the AMD EPYC family. The processor was released by AMD in the fourth quarter of 2022. Already the official introductory price, which is 11805 US dollars, shows that the AMD EPYC 9654 is a processor for professional use. The AMD EPYC 9654 is used in high-performance servers and can be operated with both Windows and Linux-based operating systems.
The AMD EPYC 9654 is based on the Genoa (Zen 4) architecture and is manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers. It has a 96.00 megabyte level 2 cache and a 384.00 megabyte level 3 cache. The 64-bit processor supports the following ISA extensions: SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512, BFLOAT16, VNNI.
The processor is based on a standard core architecture with 96 physical cores and since the processor supports hyperthreading, the processor has a total of 192 computing threads at its disposal. The base clock of the 96 cores of the AMD EPYC 9654 is 2.40 gigahertz. In turbo mode, the processor can increase the clock rate to up to 3.70 gigahertz, but only when a single core is loaded. If all cores are loaded in parallel, the clock frequency is not much lower at 3.55 gigahertz.
An internal graphics unit is not integrated in the processor, since this is not required in the professional server area.
The AMD EPYC 9654 has a total of 12 memory channels over which a maximum bandwidth of 461 GB/s can be achieved. The processor can be equipped with up to 6144 gigabytes of RAM. It only supports DDR5 memory and the officially supported memory type is DDR5-4800. Memory with automatic error correction is of course also supported.