Preparing for AMD Zen 5

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2024-AUG-09

As you already know, at Hybula we're always innovating and trying to offer the best service for our customers. We are one of the first providers getting the new Ryzen Zen 5 based CPUs, specifically the 9600X and 9700X. They where released on Friday 9-AUG-2024 in the Netherlands, and we received them on the same they. Of course the first thing we did was trying it in one of our AM5 based servers, but unfortunately it didn't boot with ARR B650D4U, and also not with Supermicro's H13SAE-MF. This probably meant that the BIOS needed to be updated in order to support the new Ryzen CPUs, so this is what we did and it worked with both motherboards. As we run the Supermicro motherboards for our hypervisors, we did some benchmarking as soon as possible and the results are promising:


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Fri Aug  9 10:20:24 AM UTC 2024

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 7 minutes
Processor  : AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 16 @ 3000.000 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 30.5 GiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid
Kernel     : 6.0.0-4-amd64
VM Type    : NONE
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline

IPv4 Network Information:
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ISP        : Eranium B.V.
ASN        : AS35133 Eranium B.V.
Host       : Eranium B.V
Location   : Amsterdam, North Holland (NH)
Country    : The Netherlands

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 2424                          
Multi Core      | 13394                         
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/22759123

Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
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Single Core     | 3398                          
Multi Core      | 13324                         
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/7258160

YABS completed in 6 min 33 sec

We're now eagerly waiting on the Ryzen 9950X which will be released next week, as we will use these for our new updated cloud line up.