AMD EPYC 7C13 Is a Surprisingly Cheap and Good CPU

Recently, at STH, we purchased a few new servers off of Newegg with a CPU many may never have heard of, the AMD EPYC 7C13. We had not tested them before, and they seemed interesting for another reason. These chips seem to sell for no more than $2000 or so, making them more of a cloud-priced 64-core EPYC than what we typically see on the market. Let us get to that very briefly and figure out exactly what the AMD EPYC 7C13 is. Performance-wise, if you see an AMD EPYC 7713P result, our initial results were very close to this, but we have not sent it to the testing data centers yet so our environment was not in the right range to report. Since we have been doing a series on Cloud Native Efficient Computing is the Way in 2024 and Beyond, we wanted to try this CPU. While it is not technically a cloud-native CPU, it is cheap, and at 64 cores, it is still plenty to consolidate dual-socket Xeon E5 V4 servers, Skylake, Cascade Lake, and 1st Gen EPYC 7001 into a single socket. The closest normal SKU seems to be the AMD EPYC 7713P, which costs over $5000 at the list price and is single socket-only. Now that AMD is on its newer generation of parts, the EPYC 7003 series seems to have parts leaking with more cloud versus enterprise customer pricing.