Yesterday in the AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" SP7 launch testing were reviews of the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core processor as well as the EPYC 9686F 96-core high frequency part. There were hundreds of benchmarks looking at the gen-on-gen performance from EPYC Turin to EPYC Venice as well as against the Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids competition.
For those wondering about how AMD EPYC Venice is competing with NVIDIA's Vera CPU, this article provides a look at those results for a range of HPC workloads.
Published by Phoronix, this update lands as hardware buyers and self-hosted AI builders weigh price-to-performance, memory bandwidth, and Linux driver support across current-generation platforms.
In addition to today's announcement of AMD EPYC 9006 SP7 availability, complete with reviews of the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core flagship and EPYC 9686F 96-core 5.3GHz part, AMD also announced the EPYC Embedded 9006 Series SP7 processors...
Phoronix benchmarks reveal the AMD EPYC 9686F server processor featuring 96 cores and 192 threads based on the Zen 6 architecture. Production silicon testing confirms a maximum boost frequency of 5.3GHz, exceeding the initially disclosed 5.0GHz target for this high-frequency enterprise part.
AMD’s EPYC ‘Venice’ CPUs are the first to debut the new Zen 6 architecture, and we’ve been testing two chips from the range over the past several weeks to see how they compare to Nvidia’s Vera, and more broadly, how the Zen 6 architecture departs from Zen 5 ahead of the expected consumer-focused Olympic Ridge launch next year. Zen 5 was a ground-up redesign of AMD’s storied Zen core, and Zen 6 takes that foundation and expands it in just about every regard.
Back in July AMD announced the EPYC 9006 "Venice" series at their Advancing AI event. Today they are announcing EPYC 9006 series Socket SP7 processor availability and with systems beginning to ship today from their OEM/ODM partners.