AMD claims its new AMD EPYC processors have helped power new HPE hardware that has set a speed world record.

The record was set by the new HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 server, available from next month, powered by the AMD EPYC chips revealed in June. This included:

An AMD EPYC model 7601-based HPE DL385 Gen10 system scored 257 on SPECrate2017_fp_base, higher than any other two socket system score published by SPEC.
An AMD EPYC model 7601-based HPE DL385 Gen10 system scored 1980 on SPECfp_rate2006, higher than any other two socket system score published by SPEC.
EPYC chips, which was originally codenamed after an Italian city famous for its mob killings, Naples will target the entire range of the server market as AMD has a crack at Intel.

EPYC will support up to 32 high-performance Zen cores, and comes with eight channels of memory, with support for up to 2 DIMMS of DDR4 on 16 memory channels, delivering up to 4 terabytes of total memory capacity.

HPE vice president and GM, volume global business unit Justin Hotard said: “HPE is joining with AMD today to extend the world’s most secure industry standard server portfolio to include the AMD EPYC processor. We now give customers another option to optimise performance and security for today’s virtualised workloads.”

“The HPE ProLiant DL385 featuring the AMD EPYC processor is the result of a long-standing technology engagement with AMD and a shared belief in continuing innovation.”