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AMD EPYC 9996 Benchmarks Show Unparalleled Performance With 256 Zen 6C Cores

Phoronix · By Michael Larabel · 52 min ago

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AMD has announced availability of EPYC 9006 "Venice" series Socket SP7 processors, with systems beginning to ship from OEM/ODM partners on 2026-11-10.
Phoronix published benchmarks of the 256-core EPYC 9996, including a dual-socket configuration with 512 cores / 1024 threads.
Phoronix also tested the EPYC 9686F, a 96-core Zen 6 part with clocks up to 5.3GHz.
AMD also announced the EPYC Embedded 9006 Series SP7 processors.

Why it matters

Venice is the first server CPU family built on the Zen 6 architecture, so developers and operators planning server capacity or benchmarking workloads now have shipping hardware to evaluate.

Who’s affected

Server and data center operators evaluating SP7 platforms
Developers running highly parallel workloads on x86 servers

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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. With that we are also now allowed to begin…

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