AMD Claims EPYC "Venice" Beats NVIDIA Vera by 2.24x in New White Paper
AMD has published a white paper on its 6th Gen EPYC 9006 "Venice" server CPUs, and it takes direct aim at NVIDIA's Vera.
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What happened
AMD has published a white paper on its 6th Gen EPYC 9006 "Venice" server CPUs, and it takes direct aim at NVIDIA's Vera. These are first-party figures from AMD, so it is important to be cautious about their validity. In SPECrate 2026 Integer, AMD says the 256-core EPYC 9996 delivers 2.24 times the platform-level performance of an 88-core Vera system, while a 96-core, high-frequency Venice chip is claimed to be 1.2 times faster per core. Against Intel's Xeon 6980P, AMD reports gains of 2.4x to 3.7x in server-side Java, OpenSSL, MongoDB, Redis, NGINX and transaction processing, and up to 3.13x in HPC tests like GROMACS. Neither AMD nor NVIDIA can publish official SPEC results yet, so all of it is estimated.
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