AMD EPYC Turin
Shares rank 5 of 8 server CPUs by recommenders
Recommended as AMD's latest EPYC server processors, praised for strong cloud benchmark performance and good efficiency per watt. No common caveat appeared in the quotes.
Recommended as AMD's latest EPYC server processors, praised for strong cloud benchmark performance and good efficiency per watt. No common caveat appeared in the quotes.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 8
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 8 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Efficient, good performance per watt
“The latest EPYC 9005 are actually quite efficient.”
Comment from 2 Nov 2025 on Hacker News “the Turin gen of the AMD Epycs is very efficient”
Comment from 26 Jun 2026 in “Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour” “where Zen 5 has better performance per watt”
Comment from 25 Mar 2026 in “ARM AGI CPU: Specs and SKUs” Strong performance across cloud benchmarks
“Turin is a huge leap again. AMD really is doing spectacularly well at the moment.”
Comment from 8 Mar 2026 in “Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers” “The benchmark shows AMD Turin's strong performance across providers”
Comment from 8 Mar 2026 in “Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers” Large leap over earlier generations
“Turin is a huge leap again. AMD really is doing spectacularly well at the moment.”
Comment from 8 Mar 2026 in “Cloud VM benchmarks 2026: performance/price for 44 VM types over 7 providers” “These things are absolutely insane.”
Comment from 23 Sep 2026 in “How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?”
Other server CPUs people recommend
The four most recommended other server CPUs, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AMD EPYC | 26 | 3 | 90% | 11 | — | Approved |
| AWS Graviton | 16 | 7 | 70% | 6 | — | Approved |
| Intel Xeon | 14 | 11 | 56% | 4 | 15 yrs3 owners | — |
| Nvidia Vera CPU | 11 | 7 | 61% | 6 | — | — |
| AMD EPYC TurinThis page | 8 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
8 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“These things are absolutely insane.”
“the Turin gen of the AMD Epycs is very efficient”
“the AMD Zen 5 compact cores have much more performance per core than Neoverse V3”
“where Zen 5 has better performance per watt”
“The benchmark shows AMD Turin's strong performance across providers”
“Turin is a huge leap again. AMD really is doing spectacularly well at the moment.”
“You could do a heck of a build with 12Ch DDR5-6400 and a GPU or two for the dense model parts.”
“The latest EPYC 9005 are actually quite efficient.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.