01 Feb 2023
When it comes to web hosting, hardware is one of the essential things to take into consideration. The CPU, in turn, is an essential component of hardware which like no other part has a lot of representations, and a great variety of features that differ from one model to another. Therefore, it's especially critical to understand well the aspects of choosing a server processor in order to make the optimal decision for the dedicated hosting server for your website. Over time technologies evolve, and that’s why it is also important to regularly update your knowledge. In this article, we are going to have a look at some trends in the world of server CPUs that are relevant in the year 2023. In the following, we’ll discuss a little, about where the whole thing is going paying attention to some prominent server brands and how their actual specifications can be described.
If we are talking about server processors, there is a bunch of leading companies that produce server CPUs and are in active competition with each other, trying to do their best with a focus on some aspects and having both strong and weak sides. These companies include Arm, Intel, and AMD. If we want to underline a keyword for each of them, summarizing what they are focussing on, we can say that Arm’s keyword is cores, Intel’s keyword is accelerators, and AMD’s keyword is moderation. Now, let’s look at each of the companies and current strategies in server development more closely.
The arm is in first place striving for reaching the highest number of cores, reaching as many as 128 cores on the Ampere Altra Max processors. The company is focused on building high-core count Arm CPUs for cloud service providers, with Ampere processors at the top being at the top, almost the standard for non-CSP specific Arm CPUs. To give you an example, the current Ampere Altra Max M128-30 128 cores with 256 threads, 2.00 GHz clock speed and 3.00 GHz max clock speed. Another feature of the current Arm processor architecture is that they focus more on the overall smooth and consistent vCPU performance rather than the maximum performance per core. In some cases, this turns out to be a disadvantage if we take into account companies that focus on enterprise software and attach more importance to the per-core performance in a way that sometimes they use exclusively Intel. On the other hand, the general vCPU is the key value for cloud service providers, as they focus on making sure that the CPUs are good at handling basic math operations and have more physical cores instead of virtual ones. That’s why Ampere Altre CPUs are frequently used by such cloud computing providers as Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Unlike the previous brand, what is in the focus of Intel processors is accelerators. Intel is striving to achieve the maximum performance per core and they are coping well with this task, this time with their 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. This feature makes them the major choice for enterprise software, forcing their competitors to rather occupy other niches. The new releases for the beginning of 2023 will include Xeon W-3400 and Xeon W-2400 CPUs. For example, Xeon W9-3495X will run on 56 cores supporting 112 threads with a base clock speed of 1.9 GHz and a max clock speed of 4.8 GHz.
As for AMD, they with current processor lines Genoa / Genoa-X, Bergamo, and Siena are trying to balance both the number of cores and the acceleration. The current leader in terms of performance here is AMD EPYC 9654 with 96 cores, 192 threads, base clock speed 2.4GHz and Max. Boost Clock up to 3.7GHz. Meanwhile, AMD’s Zen 4 is getting AI acceleration presented by AVX-512. Also, the next, the 5th Gen EPYC AMD CPU Turin is expected to be released by the end of 2023.
As for the outlook for future trends, in general, it can be said that the three major players in the processor market show a tendency to compensate for their weaknesses by trying to develop the features offered by their competitors that they are lacking on their own. This way, Arm is already seeking to increase the productivity of cores along with the number of accelerators. At the same time, AMD and Intel show an unambiguous desire to increase the number of cores. So, AMD Bergamo, announced for 2023, will increase the number of cores up to 128. Intel, in turn, plans to increase the number of cores in its new Sierra Forest, which is based on e-cores somewhat similar to what Arm offers. In the retrospective view, it’s interesting to note that the server CPU giants are switching their directions, not for the first time in history. In a similar way, analyzing the priorities of Intel and Arm ten years ago, one can see that Arm indeed prioritized the number of accelerators, while Intel strived for a higher number of cores.
In this article, we have taken a quick look over the tendencies of the server CPU presented by major brands in 2023. It is important enough to understand the features of certain lines of hardware in order to better understand in which direction you should look for a solution for your business.
By Maciej Korzeniowski on 01 Feb 2023
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