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AMD EPYC 7543P: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started EPYC 7543P sales 12 January 2021 at a recommended price of $2,730. This is a high-end Milan architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at professional systems. It has 32 cores and 64 threads, and is based on 7 nm+ manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 3700 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket SP3 processor with a TDP of 225 Watt. It supports DDR4-3200 memory.
It provides good benchmark performance at 52.84% of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.
General info
EPYC 7543P processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 34 | |
| Value for money | 7.82 | |
| Market segment | Server | |
| Series | AMD EPYC | |
| Architecture codename | Milan (2021) | |
| Release date | 12 January 2021 (2 years old) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $2,730 | of 305 (Core i7-870) |
| Current price | $4701 (1.7x MSRP) | of 15710 (Xeon Platinum 8276L) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 32 (Dotriaconta-Core) | |
| Threads | 64 | |
| Base clock speed | 2.8 GHz | of 4.7 (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.7 GHz | of 6 (Core i9-13900KS) |
| L1 cache | 96K (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 512K (per core) | of 36864 (Apple M2 Max) |
| L3 cache | 256 MB (shared) | of 768 (EPYC 7373X) |
| Chip lithography | 7 nm+ | of 4 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + | |
| Unlocked multiplier | + |
Compatibility
Information on EPYC 7543P compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 1 | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | SP3 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 225 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by EPYC 7543P. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by EPYC 7543P's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4-3200 | of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940HS) |
| Maximum memory size | 4 TiB | of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 204.795 GB/s | of 460.8 (EPYC 9124) |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 4.0 | of 5 (Core i9-12900K) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of EPYC 7543P. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
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Relative perfomance
Overall EPYC 7543P performance compared to nearest competitors among server CPUs.
Similar processors
Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for EPYC 7543P, according to our PC configuration statistics.
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14.5%
3.9%
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1.3%
These are the fastest graphics cards for EPYC 7543P in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 76 configurations based on EPYC 7543P in our database.
14.5% (11/76)
65.8% (50/76)
1.3% (1/76)
1.3% (1/76)
1.3% (1/76)
3.9% (3/76)
1.3% (1/76)
1.3% (1/76)
1.3% (1/76)
