AMD Raises Bar Against Intel With 3rd-Gen EPYC Milan CPUS The new server processors come with big price-performance and total cost of ownership benefits over Intel’s Xeon Scalable chips, according to AMD. ‘Third-gen EPYC is the highest-performance server processor in the industry, at the socket level and at the per-core level when you look at every core-count boundary,’ an exec says. By Dylan Martin March 15, 2021, 11:00 AM EDT AMD said it’s raising the bar for performance and price against Intel while introducing new security features in the data center with the launch of its third-generation EPYC processors, which represent the company’s broadest lineup yet for cloud, enterprise and high-performance computing workloads.