The reviews find strong rendering and compilation performance against comparable Xeons. AEC Magazine also finds substantial benefits from eight-channel memory in CFD testing of its HP Z6 G5 A workstation. The expensive platform is best justified by those memory and expansion needs; Puget finds cheaper non-PRO processors perform similarly in many creation applications.
Storm Peak; Zen 4 architecture. Boxed product ID 100-100000453WOF; tray 100-000000453. AMD's support launch date of 19 October 2023 is its announcement. HP's 27 November 2023 QuickSpecs lists this CPU as a factory-configured Z6 G5 A option, supporting November availability; AMD's 21 November retail wording does not name the selected PRO models.
Clocks
Precision Boost 2; Precision Boost Overdrive and Curve Optimizer voltage offsets supported
Cache
L1 2048 KB; L2 32 MB; the advertised 160 MB combined cache includes L2 and L3
Graphics and AI
Built-in graphics
No
Graphics
A separate graphics card is required
Platform
Socket
sTR5
Base power
350 W
Unlocked
Yes
Cooler in the box
No
Memory support
DDR5 RDIMM; eight channels; up to 5200 MT/s. ECC enabled by default; AMD EXPO supported. WRX90 supports up to 2 TB; TRX50 reduces this to four channels and up to 1 TB.
PCIe
PCIe 5.0; 148 native/platform lanes, 144 usable, including 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes with WRX90. TRX50 limits expansion to 92 total/88 usable lanes, including 48 PCIe 5.0. Four native USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports and four SATA ports; NVMe boot and RAID 0, 1, 10 and 5 supported.
Chipsets
WRX90, TRX50 and AMD PRO 695; AMD PRO technologies, DASH management and AMD Memory Guard supported. Platform capabilities depend on the motherboard.
Process
CPU cores: TSMC 5 nm FinFET; I/O die: TSMC 6 nm FinFET. Five package dies; CCD 71 mm², I/O die 388 mm².
Cooler
Cooler not included; maximum operating temperature 95°C
