AMD announced its latest EPYC data center processors with support from cloud providers, server manufacturers, and software providers including IBM Cloud, Microsoft, Dell Technologies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), VMware, and others.

The three processors, EPYC 7F32, EPYC 7F52, and EPYC 7F72, which have eight, 16, and 24 cores, respectively, are part of AMD’s second-generation EPYC chip family and target database, commercial high-performance computing (HPC), and hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) workloads. AMD says the new additions make EPYC the “world’s highest per core performance x86 server CPU.”

Based on AMD internal and external tests comparing its EPYC processors to Intel’s Xeon Gold and Xeon Platinum chips, AMD claims its new processors offer up to 17% higher SQL Server performance, HCI with up to 47% higher VMmark score (using VMware’s vSAN as the storage tier in a 4-node cluster), and commercial HPC with up to 94% higher per core computational fluid dynamics. Microsoft seemed to concur, stating that the new chip provide its data platform customers up to 17% higher SQL Server performance.

IBM Cloud is first cloud provider to offer its customers the new AMD EPYC 7F72 processors in its bare metal offering. Additionally, Dell Technologies will support all three processors in its Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, including the R6525, which it says holds the world record in benchmark performance for HCI using VMware’s vSAN storage.

HPE is also offering customers the latest AMD EPYC processors to support its HCI product, SimpliVity, and will support the new chips on its new Apollo and ProLiant servers for HPC, HCI, and database environments. And Nutanix said it plans to support its HCI software running on HPE ProLiant servers by May.

Lenovo’s ThinkSystems, which enterprises use for data analytics, software-defined storage, and infrastructure for remote workers, will also support the AMD chips. It says that these single-socket platforms achieve an increased core clock speed up to 15% with the EPYC processors.

And finally, Supermicro is launching a blade platform built for the new AMD processors combined with integrated 25 Gb/s Ethernet and optional 100 Gb/s Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) InfiniBand support with 200 Gb/s High Data Rate (HDR) in the future.