Zen 2 based CPUs look like futuristic 2P/4P or Computer Cluster?

[nicalandia]

Is it just me or the new Zen 2 design looks like a cluster of computers? each CCD has two CCX, each CCX has a quad core unit and with a central router IO handling communications between each node, in the case of Epyc 64C, there is literally 16 quad core nodes interconnected with IF and a central node IO chiplet handling communications.

Or more like a scale down 2P/2P motherboard?

What's old is new again: North bridge, South bridge, CPUs looking like tiny computer clusters.

 

[moinmoin]

That was the case with Zen 1, more specifically Threadripper and Epyc. Their MCM litterally behaved like multiprocessor computers, including NUMAs.

With Zen 2 they are a step further, reducing duplicity and interconnect complexity for further scalability.