Nitrado Elevates Game Server Hosting Performance and Efficiency With Next-Generation AMD Processors

• 🔺 Problem
  Ensuring players always benefit from advanced server hardware that consistently delivers lag-free and responsive gameplay, even as online games become more complex and sophisticated.

 

• ✅ Solution
  Nitrado and Apex Hosting supercharged their game servers by integrating powerful new AMD Ryzen™ and EPYC™ CPUs, directly boosting in-game performance, responsiveness, and stability across titles for a superior player experience.

 

• ⭐ Product
  Nitrado, Apex Hosting, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X & EPYC™ 9474F CPUs

Overview

For almost two and a half decades, Nitrado has stood as a global leader in game server hosting, dedicated to providing gamers with high-performant, reliable, and customizable server solutions. In a continuous effort to enhance player experience and operational excellence across its consumer offerings, the Nitrado group has executed a significant infrastructure upgrade by strategically deploying state-of-the-art AMD Ryzen™ and EPYC™ processors. This initiative has yielded substantial advancements in processing capabilities and energy efficiency, reinforcing Nitrado’s commitment to its vast community of gamers.

Online gaming is characterized by immense diversity in both players and titles. From sprawling open-world survival games to fast-paced competitive shooters, each and every multiplayer title comes with its own unique demands on game server infrastructure. For Nitrado and its sister company Apex Hosting, catering to a broad consumer audience means supporting this wide array in the most optimized way to ensure seamless performance and enjoyable experiences for every player. The CPU is the cornerstone of this performance, directly influencing server responsiveness, game simulation fidelity, and the capacity to handle high numbers of concurrent players without degradation.
 
As a premier provider in multiplayer server hosting, Nitrado is devoted to delivering robust, developer-friendly, and community-focused solutions. The game server fleets that drive Nitrado and Apex Hosting’s offerings are designed to provide the dedicated processing power and low-latency environment gamers expect for their private servers and community-hosted game worlds. Recognizing the continuous evolution of game engine technology and player expectations, Nitrado identified the opportunity to integrate next-generation CPU architectures to maintain its leadership in performance and value.

The Challenge: Delivering Consistent High Performance and Efficiency Across a Diverse Hosting Portfolio

The game server market presents quite a unique challenge. Unlike enterprise environments that might focus on a single game title, Nitrado and Apex Hosting support a plethora of different games, each with varying CPU utilization profiles. Some games are heavily reliant on single-core clock speeds for optimal performance, others benefit from a higher core count for parallel tasks. Simultaneously, operating large-scale server hosting fleets necessitates a keen focus on energy efficiency to manage operational and server efficiency.
 
Nitrado’s primary challenge was to select CPU technologies that could deliver exceptional performance across this wide spectrum of game server workloads, ensuring that players, regardless of the games they choose, experience smooth, lag-free gameplay. This required a versatile approach to processor selection, capable of providing both high single-thread performance and tangible improvements in power efficiency. This comprehensive evaluation led Nitrado to the advanced AMD Ryzen™ and EPYC™ processor families.

The Solution: Strategic Deployment of AMD Ryzen™ and EPYC™ Processors Across Nitrado’s Server Infrastructure

To address the diverse needs of its myriad customers, Nitrado and Apex Hosting made the strategic decision to integrate both the AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X and the server-class AMD EPYC™ 9474F CPUs into its game server offerings.
 
The AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X, with its 16 high-performance cores, 32 threads, and impressive boost-capabilities of up to 5.7 GHz, was selected to power game servers for titles that are particularly sensitive to single-core clock speed. Multiplayer games hosted on Nitrado servers benefit significantly from this high-frequency performance, resulting in higher server tick rates, increased instructions per cycle (IPC), more responsive game logic, and an overall smoother player experience.
 
Complementing the Ryzen™ deployment, the AMD EPYC™ 9474F, offering a formidable 48 cores and 96 threads with boost speeds up to 3.95 GHz, was chosen by Nitrado for two primary reasons. Firstly, it provides a robust platform for games with substantial RAM requirements, where overall throughput and memory capacity are imperative. Secondly, these EPYC™ processors enable Nitrado to achieve higher service density on its physical machines. This capability is beneficial in optimizing its revenue to cost ratio, and allows for more game instances to be efficiently hosted per server, delivering better value to customers while maintaining strong performance for suitable game profiles.
 
This dual-CPU strategy allows Nitrado to offer tailored hardware solutions, matching the specific performance profile of different games to the most suitable AMD processor, thereby maximizing player experience and server efficiency. This strategy has also extended to GameFabric, Nitrado’s multiplayer server orchestration platform, which specifically utilizes AMD Ryzen™ processors to deliver high performance for its enterprise studio clients.

Measurable Impact: Optimized Gains in Performance, Enhanced Player Experiences, and Improved Efficiency

Nitrado’s transition to AMD CPU architecture across its platforms has yielded substantial and quantifiable improvements, directly benefitting the countless gamers who trust Nitrado and Apex Hosting for their game server needs:
 

1. Nitrado and Apex Hosting’s consumer operations equipped with the AMD EPYC™ 9474F delivered a dramatic 60% increase in single-core performance and an impressive 20% reduction in overall power consumption per CPU compared to the previous older generation competitor chipsets used by Nitrado. This substantial decrease in energy use per EPYC processor not only lowers operational expenditures and total cost of ownership for Nitrado -allowing for more competitive pricing- but also reduces the related environmental footprint of these large-scale hosting operations compared to the previously implemented solution.

 


2. Nitrado, Apex Hosting, and GameFabric realized a 50% increase in single-core performance with the AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X when compared to the previous older generation competitor chipset solution, showcasing a group-wide benefit from this adoption. This significant single-core uplift empowers the Nitrado group to offer superior computational power for a broader range of CPU-intensive game titles, directly optimizing server stability across all platforms.

 
“Gaming pushes hardware to its limits, and gamers are among the most tech-savvy, performance-driven users out there. That’s why AMD continues to be a powerhouse in gaming—whether it’s desktop, server, or mobile processors. It’s incredibly exciting to see the amazing results Nitrado has achieved using AMD technology-powered solutions. This is more than just a performance win; it’s a testament to the strong, ongoing collaboration between our teams and our shared commitment to delivering the ultimate experience for both game developers and players.”
 
– Alexander Troshin, Product Marketing Manager – EMEA, Enterprise & HPC Server Business Unit at AMD
 
The advanced “Zen 4” architecture strengthening both these AMD chip families, with its significant IPC uplift and efficiency gains over prior generations, allows for better performance, server density, and tangible cost savings for Nitrado and, ultimately, better value for its customers. This enhanced processing power has translated to faster loading times, more stable server performance even under heavy load, higher tick rates for more responsive gameplay, and a more reliable hosting environment for player communities, creating a smoother experience for all.
 
“The CPU is the heart of any game server, and for all our customers, nothing is more important than a seamless, responsive experience. Our move to AMD Ryzen™ and EPYC™ processors was a game-changer for us. The significant leap in single-core performance and efficiency has helped us to deliver the fast, stable, and powerful servers that gamers on Nitrado and Apex Hosting rely on.”
 
– Felix Oechsler, CTO & Managing Director at Nitrado

AMD and Nitrado Elevate the Standard for Online Gaming Communities

This strategic implementation of AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X and EPYC™ 9474F processors denotes a significant landmark in the continuous optimization of Nitrado’s game server infrastructure. Nitrado’s documented performance gains and energy efficiency improvements leveraged by the adoption of AMD’s next-generation CPUs have provided tangible benefits to gamers worldwide, enabling them to enjoy superior online experiences set apart by responsiveness, stability, and performance.
 
Nitrado has furthered its commitment to utilizing best-in-class hardware, exemplified by its comprehensive integration of powerful AMD CPU technology across the Nitrado group, ensuring players have the power to create and enjoy the next generation of immersive online gaming.
 

AMD

For more than 55 years AMD has driven innovation in high-performance computing, graphics and visualization technologies. Billions of people, leading Fortune 500 businesses and cutting-edge scientific research institutions around the world rely on AMD technology daily to improve how they live, work and play. AMD employees are focused on building leadership high-performance and adaptive products that push the boundaries of what is possible. For more information about how AMD is enabling today and inspiring tomorrow, visit the AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) website, blog, LinkedIn, Facebook and X pages.

Nitrado

Nitrado is the leading global provider of private game server hosting with over two decades of experience in the industry. Through Nitrado and its subsidiary, Apex Hosting, millions of players and community creators enjoy high-quality, reliable game servers across the game industry’s most popular titles. For game studios, Nitrado provides GameFabric, its multiplayer server orchestration platform, and patented, game-specific UDP & TCP DDoS protection through SteelShield.
 
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