We put AMD's fifth-gen EPYC 'Turin' 9005 series to the test. These are AMD's Zen 5 server processors, sporting up to 192 cores and a 500W TDP.

At just under $15,000, the EPYC 9965 uses the Zen 5c core architecture has 192 cores and 384 threads and will compete against Intel Granite Rapids Xeon 6 range as well as Ampere’s AmpereOne server CPUs. It has a base CPU speed of 2.25GHz with a TDP of 500W (AMD’s highest ever) and 384MB L3 cache.

AMD has officially unveiled its next-generation data center CPUs and GPUs at an event in San Francisco dubbed Advancing AI. The 5th generation Epyc CPUs will come in two distinct configurations, which are now part of the same 9005 family instead of being given different code names,

At this point, AMD EPYC is certainly a brand which needs no introduction. AMD's dense server processors, based on its Zen 5 and Zen 5c core architecture, build on AMD's origins to offer many-core solutions with huge compute resources and capabilities that continue to outstrip what people might have considered possible just a few generations ago.

The 192-core Epyc 9965 CPU has a boost clock of 3.7GHz and a TDP of 500W, with an L3 Cache of 384MB, for a price of $14,813. The 64-core Epyc 9575F is designed for GPU AI workloads and is capable of 5GHz, with a TDP of 400W, at a cost of $7,592.