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AMD will bring 2 different sockets to the market for Epyc, SP5 for high-end servers, and SP6 for low-power servers.

While SP5 can go the full 400W and 96 Genoa/128 Bergamo cores, SP6 will be limited to 225W and 32 Genoa/64 Bergamo cores. It also comes with just 6 memory channels, half of what SP5 will bring.

While this is supposedly for low-power servers, I hope AMD will bring this socket to the desktop too, as it would be a great HEDT platform, a market the Threadripper has now outgrown. Zen 2 Threadripper is EOL right now and these look like a more viable replacement to those chips, as Zen 3 Threadripper has gotten too big and too powerful for most customers, hence why AMD made them pure OEM Workstation chips.

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-sp6-socket-for-next-gen-zen4-epyc-series-has-been-pictured-same-size-as-sp3

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-preps-sp6-socket-for-lower-power-epyc-genoa-cpus