AMD's 6th Gen EPYC server CPUs ship on Zen 6, with a dual-socket 9996 claimed up to 2.2x a Xeon 6980P
AMD announced general availability of its 6th Gen EPYC server SP7 processors on the new Zen 6 architecture, with systems shipping from major server vendors and Azure and OCI cloud instances to follow soon. AMD claims the general-purpose EPYC 9996, in dual-socket systems on SPECrate 2017_int_base, delivers up to 2.2x the performance and 2.0x the performance per dollar of an Intel Xeon 6980P system, and up to 3.7x an Nvidia Vera system. The Vera comparison rests on AMD internal estimates, and the company positions the line as a workload-optimized portfolio rather than one model leading everywhere.