With the AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" series launch earlier this month there was launch-day benchmark review results for the EPYC 9575F, EPYC 9755, and EPYC 9965 processors in looking at that frequency optimized SKU, the new flagship 128-core Turin "classic" core model, and the new flagship 192-core Turin "dense" core SKU, respectively. That's interesting for looking at the new 5th Gen AMD EPYC top-end wares but in comparing to 4th Gen EPYC also means higher core counts at the top-end. In being curious about the core-for-core advantages of 5th Gen EPYC, I managed to get my hands on the AMD EPYC 9655 processors for seeing how that model compares to the prior AMD EPYC 9654 "Genoa" flagship model. Here's a look today at how the AMD EPYC 9655 1P/2P 96-core processor compares to the prior EPYC 9654 flagship.
The EPYC 9655 is interesting for being the 5th Gen EPYC "Turin" equivalent of the former EPYC 9654 "Genoa" flagship model at 96 cores / 192 threads. So while it's also interesting looking at the new 128-core Turin classic and 192-core Turin dense configurations, for seeing the generational uplift from 4th Gen to 5th Gen AMD EPYC at the same core count, the EPYC 9655 is an interesting candidate.