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AMD announces new EPYC 4005 Zen 5 server CPUs

by on13 May 2025


Six to sixteen cores for entry-level enterprise

AMD has launched new EPYC 4005 series "Grado" processors aimed at the entry-level enterprise market, featuring six to sixteen Zen 5 cores and based on the same and widely deployed AM5 socket that was already used for AMD EPYC 4004 series CPUs.

Specification-wise, AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" series is pretty much the same as the Ryzen 9000 series desktop CPUs, featuring two 4nm Zen 5 CCDs paired up with a 6nm I/O. This time around it comes with support for ECC memory with DDR5-5600 support, and supports up to 192GB of ECC DDR5 memory in a dual-channel interface. It also comes with a 28-lane PCIe Gen 5, as well as AMD's own Secure Processor (ASP), TrustZone, hardware-accelerated encryption, memory encryption, TPM 2.0, and TSME. It also gets AMD RAIDXpert2 for Server, a software RAID solution.

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The AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado" series features six SKUs, ranging from a 6-core/12-thread SKU, all the way to a 16-core/32-thread one. The flagship is the EPYC 4565P, a 16-core/32-thread SKU with 64MB of L3 cache (32MB per CCD), a 170W TDP, and a base frequency of 4.3GHz (5.7GHz boost). There is also a lower TDP 16-core/32-thread SKU, the EPCY 4545P, which has a lower 3.0GHz (5.4GHz boost) clock and 65W TDP.

The rest of the lineup includes the EPYC 4465P, a 12-core/24-thread SKU with 3.4GHz base (5.4GHz boost) clock and 65W TDP, the EPCY 4345P, an 8-core/16-thread SKU that comes with a single CCD so has 32MB of L3 cache, 3.8GHz base (5.5GHz boost) clcok and the same 65W TDP, and the EPCY 4245P, a 6-core/12-thread SKU with 32MB of L3 cache, 3.9GHz base (5.4GHz boost) clock and same 65W TDP.

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AMD has listed several partners including Lenovo, MSI, Supermicro, ASRock, Gigabyte, and others as its partners.

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