One of the biggest server CPU stacks is about to officially launch soon, as AMD prepares for new EPYC Venice CPUs.
AMD to Introduce Zen 6-Based EPYC Venice CPUs at Advancing AI Event on July 22nd and 23rd, While Mainstream Chips Should Launch Much Later
AMD's CTO and EVP, Mark Papermaster, has just confirmed that the next-generation Zen 6-based AMD EPYC "Venice" CPUs are going to get officially introduced this month. We knew from previous reports that the company had planned a launch this year, but we never knew the exact date. However, in a recent interview, Mark has confirmed that the EPYC Venice is going to be there in the talks at the Advancing AI Event that will be held on July 22nd and 23rd.
Mark says that the EPYC Venice is optimized for standalone x86 traditional workloads and it will continue to delver the leadership x86 performance .
I’ll say for me, every enterprise conversation I’m having now, this comes up. Because enterprises have, you know, decades of running x86. They’re not going to move that install base. And what we’ve done at AMD, you know, since we launched the new Zen processor back in 2017. We’re now on our sixth generation. So, at our Advancing AI event on July 22nd and 23rd, we’re rolling out this new generation. You know, it continues the kind of leadership x86 CPU, but it’s designed in such a way that it matches what I just described a moment moment ago. It’s optimized for standalone x86 traditional workloads.
- Mark Papermaster, Via Overclock3d
AMD's EPYC Venice is the 6th-generation product stack that will be the first in AMD's arsenal to boast the upcoming Zen 6 architecture. The processors have already entered production using TSMC's 2nm process node, making Venice the industry's first high-performance computing processor to reach production on the advanced node. AMD has confirmed that production has been ramping in Taiwan with future manufacturing planned at TSMC's Arizona facility.
Zen 6 EPYC is going to deliver up to 256 Zen 6 cores on its flagship CPU, which is a solid 33% increase over the current 192-core EPYC Turin lineup. As per AMD, EPYC Venice is designed to deliver over 70% higher performance and efficiency than its Zen 5-based predecessor. Zen 6 is going to utilize the new SP7 socket and will support 16-channel memory with up to 1.6 TB/s of bandwidth. Moreover, it will adopt the PCIe Gen 6.0 standard to improve CPU-to-GPU communication for AI accelerators.
As far as the mainstream client Zen 6 products are concerned, we may not see them before the end of this year. AMD will likely introduce Zen 6 chips at CES 2027, which will be held in January.
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