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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Anton Shilov

AMD EPYC Venice boasts 256 cores and bandwidth galore — next-gen server CPUs arrive in 2026

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AMD on Thursday revealed some of the first technical details about its next-generation Zen 6-based EPYC 'Venice' processor at its Advancing AI event. The company disclosed that the new server CPU will feature up to 256 cores, which increases the number of cores from the current generation EPYC 'Turin' processor by 33%. But the new microarchitecture and the increased number of cores will not be the only innovation that AMD's 2026 data center CPU will bring. 

AMD says by packing up to 256 next-generation high-performance Zen 6 cores, the upcoming 6th Generation EPYC 'Venice' CPU will increase performance compared to the existing 5th Generation EPYC 'Turin' 9005-series processor by up to 70%, though the company refrained from elaborating exact workloads it used for comparison. 

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