AMD’s EPYC processors packing up to 64 cores have proven to be extremely potent and popular within the server community of late. With its Milan CPUs and Aldebaran (MI250X) GPUs, AMD’s lineup was impressive enough to garner two exascale contracts for Frontier and El Capitan.
Frontier is already in the process of coming online and features Zen 3-based CPUs with MI250X GPUs, while El Capitan is slated to use Zen 4-derived CPUs and potentially a future AMD Instinct GPU— we say ‘potentially’ because it’s not clear if AMD will have anything better than MI250X available any time soon.