An EPYC trip to Rome: AMD is Cloudflare's 10th-generation Edge server CPU

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This post details Cloudflare's adoption of AMD EPYC 7642 CPUs for its 10th-generation edge servers, marking a significant hardware upgrade. It highlights the move to higher core density and improved power efficiency (Requests per Watt) by switching from dual-socket Intel Xeon Platinum 6162s to a single-socket AMD EPYC. The post presents extensive benchmarking results across cryptography, compression, and Go/LuaJIT workloads, demonstrating the performance benefits of the new AMD hardware for Cloudflare's compute-intensive software stack, directly contributing to the network's performance and efficiency.