At Computex 2023, we noticed the Gigabyte R263-P33 Ampere AmpereOne Arm server. This was a cool server to see as the discharge of AmpereOne CPUs inch towards normal availability. Whereas they’re cloud-only proper now, we count on that to alter within the not-too-distant future, and so seeing servers like this Gigabyte one is thrilling. Allow us to take a fast look.
Gigabyte R263-P33 Ampere AmpereOne Arm Server at Computex 2023
Listed below are the important thing specs of the Gigabyte R263-P33. Since we can’t see the again, the usual I/O is listed as a 1GbE port and a devoted administration port. The ability provides are 2.4kW 80+ Platinum items which appear excessive.
The entrance of the chassis has 4 3.5″ bays targeted on NVMe and the rest on SATA and SAS with an non-obligatory controller. It is a 2U platform, however Gigabyte additionally has a 1U platform for people who need extra density, in addition to a dual-socket platform coming.
Contained in the server we will see a reasonably commonplace format.
There’s a 4 hot-swap fan partition within the center behind the storage backplane. We will additionally see a extra commercial-style motherboard than a proprietary type issue.
Right here is one other angle the place we will see the format a bit higher.
The beginning of the present is the LGA5964 socket for AmpereOne. We additionally get eight DDR5 DIMM channels.
On the again, now we have two risers for PCIe slots.
Right here is the opposite riser. In complete, we get 3x full top full-length PCIe Gen5 x16 slots with GPU assist and one other PCIe Gen5 x16 half-length slot.
Networking is offered through the 2 OCP NIC 3.0 slots on both facet of the risers. There’s additionally what could be the quickest boot resolution round as a PCIe Gen5 x4 M.2 slot. Typically, we see PCIe Gen3 x1 and possibly x4 slots getting used for boot gadgets lately.
Since our group had this query, the black field in these images covers the connection between the facility distribution board and the motherboard.
That is certainly one of a rising variety of AmpereOne servers.
Closing Phrases
Total, it’s nice to see extra of those servers. Now we simply want AmpereOne chips. The Ampere Altra Max 128 core half is nice for having many cores, however AMD EPYC “Bergamo” is about to 3x the SPECint charges per socket. We may have extra on that later this week. That’s not the market that Ampere is essentially competing in, however Ampere goes to want the next core depend and a brand new core to push its excessive core depend agenda versus AMD now that AMD has the next core depend providing. Hopefully, we will carry you critiques of each the server and the chip within the not-too-distant future. For now, you possibly can be taught extra about AmpereOne right here.