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AMD shares first official benchmarks for EPYC 'Venice' CPUs, targets Nvidia
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Following the launch of AMD's EPYC 'Venice' CPUs in July, AMD extended the performance claims for its upcoming generation of server chips on Friday.
Key facts
- AMD still says a 96-core, high-frequency Venice chip is around 20% faster than Nvidia's 88-core Vera in SPEC CPU 2026's Integer Rate test
- It makes sense that AMD used GCC 16.1, it includes support for Zen 6, but ideally Vera would also be on GCC 16.1
- AMD is testing a down-cored EPYC 9996, dropping from 256 cores to 96 cores
- It made no mention of power budget, but when AMD originally shared SPEC numbers, the 96-core model had access to the same 600W as the 256-core model, AMD's 96-core, high-frequency Venice SKU tops out
Summary
Intel's roadmaps examined, 14A, Nova Lake, Diamond Rapids & AI accelerator push. There are several configuration differences depending on the benchmark throughout AMD's white paper, and although they'll call out those differences here to the best of their ability, they don't have all of the details. First up are results in SPEC CPU 2026 with the intrate test, looking at total throughput. The 256-core 9996 is 2.37x faster than the Intel Xeon 6980P and 2.24x faster than Vera according to the slide.