AMD has unveiled its fourth generation Epyc CPUs, designed for data center workloads. With a 96-core design, the debut of DDR5 and 12-channel memory configurations, there is a lot of horsepower to hand. While much of the AMD announcement focused on High Performance Computing (HPC), two video software vendors – iSize Technologies and Synamedia – have been quick to proclaim the benefits of the new designs for video workloads. AMD has been on a tear in recent years, clawing market share from its incumbent rival Intel. Faultline could not bait iSize’s CTO, Yiannis Andreopoulos, into a direct comparison between AMD and Intel CPUs, but the pre-encoder enhancement provider has already published some tests that show the generational improvement of the…