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EPYC 7232P is a 64-bit octa-core x86 server microprocessor designed and introduced by AMD in mid-2019. This multi-chip processor, which is based on the Zen 2 microarchitecture, incorporates logic fabricated TSMC 7 nm process and I/O fabricated on GlobalFoundries 14 nm process. The 7232P has a TDP of 120 W with a base frequency of 3.1 GHz and a boost frequency of up to 3.2 GHz. This processor supports single-socket configurations only and up to 4 TiB of memory per socket.

This processor has 8 CPU cores and 32 MiB L3 cache. A single Core Complex Die (plus I/O die) can provide these resources, however there seems to be no evidence that AMD produces any Zen 2-based EPYC or Threadripper processors with an odd number of CCDs, and the advertised maximum memory bandwidth appears to exceed the capabilities of a single CCD. The EPYC 7252 SKU notably has the same specifications as this model except for supporting dual-socket systems and offering 64 MiB L3 cache which evidently requires two CCDs.

Cache

Main article: Zen 2 § Cache

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Cache Organization Cache is a hardware component containing a relatively small and extremely fast memory designed to speed up the performance of a CPU by preparing ahead of time the data it needs to read from a relatively slower medium such as main memory. The organization and amount of cache can have a large impact on the performance, power consumption, die size, and consequently cost of the IC. Cache is specified by its size, number of sets, associativity, block size, sub-block size, and fetch and write-back policies. Note: All units are in kibibytes and mebibytes.

L1$ 512 KiB 524,288 B 0.5 MiB L1I$ 256 KiB 262,144 B 0.25 MiB 8x32 KiB 8-way set associative   L1D$ 256 KiB 262,144 B 0.25 MiB 8x32 KiB 8-way set associative write-back L2$ 4 MiB 4,096 KiB 4,194,304 B 0.00391 GiB     8x512 KiB 8-way set associative write-back L3$ 32 MiB 32,768 KiB 33,554,432 B 0.0313 GiB     2x16 MiB

Memory controller

This model supports up to 8 channels of up to DDR4-3200 memory^[1][2] with a theoretical maximum bandwidth of 25.6 GB/s (≈ 23.84 GiB/s) per channel, but is apparently bandwidth limited by the IFOP links between the I/O die and its only one (two?) compute dies (effective bandwidth ≈ 55 GB/s per CCD at 1.46 GHz FCLK^[3]). According to AMD this processor is "optimized for 4 channels with DDR4-2667 DIMMs" (≈ 21.3 GB/s per channel) and therefore has a "per-socket theoretical memory bandwidth 85.3 GB/s" (≈ 79.47 GiB/s).^[2]

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	Integrated Memory Controller
	Max Type DDR4-3200 Supports ECC Yes Max Mem 4 TiB Controllers 8 Channels 8 Max Bandwidth 190.7 GiB/s 195,276.8 MiB/s 204.763 GB/s 204,762.566 MB/s 0.186 TiB/s 0.205 TB/s Bandwidth Single 23.84 GiB/s Double 47.68 GiB/s Quad 95.37 GiB/s Hexa 143.1 GiB/s Octa 190.7 GiB/s

Expansions

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	Expansion Options
PCIe Revision: 4.0 Max Lanes: 128 Configuration: x16, x8

Features

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Supported x86 Extensions & Processor Features

MMX MMX Extension EMMX Extended MMX Extension SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions SSE2 Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 SSE3 Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 SSSE3 Supplemental SSE3 SSE4.1 Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.1 SSE4.2 Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2 SSE4a Streaming SIMD Extensions 4a AVX Advanced Vector Extensions AVX2 Advanced Vector Extensions 2 ABM Advanced Bit Manipulation BMI1 Bit Manipulation Instruction Set 1 BMI2 Bit Manipulation Instruction Set 2 FMA3 3-Operand Fused-Multiply-Add AES AES Encryption Instructions RdRand Hardware RNG SHA SHA Extensions ADX Multi-Precision Add-Carry CLMUL Carry-less Multiplication Extension F16C 16-bit Floating Point Conversion x86-16 16-bit x86 x86-32 32-bit x86 x86-64 64-bit x86 Real Real Mode Protected Protected Mode SMM System Management Mode FPU Integrated x87 FPU NX No-eXecute SMT Simultaneous Multithreading AMD-Vi AMD-Vi (I/O MMU virtualization) AMD-V AMD Virtualization SME Secure Memory Encryption TSME Transparent SME SEV Secure Encrypted Virtualization SenseMI SenseMI Technology Boost 2 Precision Boost 2

References

1. ↑ "AMD EPYC™ 7232P". AMD.com. Retrieved October 2020.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} "AMD EPYC™ 7002 Series Processors: A New Standard for the Modern Datacenter", AMD Publ. #LE-70002, Rev. 02, April 2020
3. ↑ Naffziger, Samuel; Lepak, Kevin; Paraschou, Milam; Subramony, Mahesh (2020). 2.2 AMD Chiplet Architecture for High-Performance Server and Desktop Products. 2020 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. pp. 44-45. doi:10.1109/ISSCC19947.2020.9063103