AMD’s Zen 6-based EPYC ‘Venice’ CPU pushes core count to 256, boosts performance by 70%, and features PCIe 6.0, 1.6 TB/s memory bandwidth, and a new SP7 packaging, according to AMD.

AMD says that the new Venice Epycs can provide up to a 70% performance increase over Turin CPUs. But, as Tom’s Hardware notes, AMD hasn’t provided much information about how the testing was done.

AMD to host 2025 Financial Analyst Day this November, where it will reveal its strategic technology and products roadmaps spanning from Zen 6 and CDNA 5 through the end of the decade.

Venice is set to feature up to 256 Zen 6 cores, representing a significant jump from the current Epyc 'Turin' 9965, which offers up to 192 Zen 5c cores, 384MB of L3 cache, and a 2.25 GHz base clock.

AMD has capitalised on every one of those missteps. With platforms like SP7 and SP8 promising up to 12,800 MT/s 16-channel memory and 128 PCIe 6.0 lanes for next-gen EPYC Venice and Verano CPUs ...

Additionally, AMD’s deal with TSMC (TSM) supports a steady supply of chips, with the next-generation EPYC Venice processors already in development on TSMC’s 2nm process node.

By contrast, says AMD, all of the big clouds as well as the hyperscalers have AMD EPYC processors in their fleets and similar configurations of those processors, and the major OEMs and ODMs are also ...