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alberth 2 days ago

What’s the different between these two:

Consumer:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/90...

EPYC variant:

https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/server/epyc/4005-...

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zamadatix 2 days ago | parent [-]

The Epyc 4585PX falls into the `(and "real" Epyc, not just any Epyc branded consumer platforms)` note. I.e. it is the same CPU as the AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 9965X3D, branded differently because it is certified against "server" branded motherboards instead of "standard" PC motherboards (same socket/chipset though, outside firmware validation the two are swappable). It carries none of the actual Epyc feature sets, just the PRO features, and the feature differences are therefore the same as any other PRO CPU.

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alberth 2 days ago | parent [-]

Hence why I said in my original post:

>>Makes sense. The ECC in consumer line is what created an entire market for use in inexpensive web hosting. Then AMD created their EPYC variants, and it wasn’t clear what the difference was between the consumer & Epyc models. reply

	▲	zamadatix 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		To summarize my responses to what you had originally posted: "True" Epyc has always had a differentiation from the consumer line in the scaling+features, Ryzen PRO has always had a differentiation from the consumer line in the features, and "fake" Epyc 4000 has always had differentiation from the consumer line in the same way as PRO had/has. Of all of the combinations, only the newer Epyc 4000 line compared with the pre-existing Ryzen PRO line have actually lacked differentiation from each other and this change in encryption support on the consumer line does not help with that.