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AMD Zen 6 EPYC ‘Venice’ deep dive and benchmarking
Tom's Hardware · By Jake Roach ·
The Brief · written from 4 sources
- 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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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…
Timeline
AMD announced the EPYC 9006 Venice series at its Advancing AI event
AMD announced Socket SP7 availability and systems began shipping from OEM/ODM partners
Phoronix
AMD EPYC Embedded 9006 Series SP7 Announced
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