AMD announces 6th Gen AMD EPYC 'Venice' CPUs, up to 256 cores and 512 threads and built for AI

Q: Which AMD EPYC 9006 model is optimized specifically for agentic AI and what are its maximum core and thread counts?

The AMD EPYC 9006 SP7 is tailor-made for agentic AI. It features up to 256 cores and 512 threads.

Q: What are the core and frequency differences between the EPYC 9006 SP7 and the EPYC 9006X SP7?

The AMD EPYC 9006 SP7 is described as having up to 256 cores and 512 threads with up to 5.00 GHz of high-frequency performance. The AMD EPYC 9006X SP7 increases peak frequency to 5.15 GHz and triples the L3 cache per core while also ramping up memory bandwidth; the primary article does not state a single maximum core count for the 9006X SP7 beyond a 96-core example used in a performance comparison.

Q: Which EPYC 9006 SKU is intended for power-constrained racks and edge computing and what is its core range?

The AMD EPYC 9006 SP8 is intended for power-constrained racks and edge computing, and it has a flexible 8- to 128-core design.

Q: What memory and CPU-to-GPU bandwidth features does the EPYC 9006 LP (Verano) provide?

The EPYC 9006 LP (Verano) supports LPDDR5X memory. It provides 112 Gbps of CPU-to-GPU bandwidth.

With multiple models purpose built for different workloads, the new AMD EPYC 'Venice' CPU lineup goes all out with 256 Zen 6c cores and 96 Zen 6 cores.

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TL;DR: AMD unveiled 6th Gen EPYC "Venice" (9006 Series) CPUs for agentic AI, cloud, HPC, and enterprise, offering up to 256 Zen 6c cores/512 threads, up to 96 Zen 6 cores, 1152 MB 3D V‑Cache, PCIe Gen6, and variants (SP7, 9006X, SP8, LP/Verano) optimized for high-frequency, cache, bandwidth, and efficiency.

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At AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event, the company formally lifted the lid on its 6th Gen AMD EPYC series of processors with the new 'Venice'-powered AMD EPYC 9006 Series. With multiple purpose-built models, AMD notes that the lineup is built for agentic AI, cloud computing, HPC, and general process workloads.

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Of course, it's the agentic AI focus that makes the 6th Gen AMD EPYC server CPUs stand out. That, and the impressive Compute configuration that features up to 256 Zen 6c cores, up to 96 Zen 6 cores, and 1152 MB of 3D V-Cache.

"Agentic AI is reshaping how enterprise infrastructure is used and designed," AMD confirms. "It is transforming AI from systems that simply answer questions into systems that act, plan, call tools, write and execute code, and reason over enterprise data. Agentic AI depends on CPU-powered infrastructure to run agents, coordinate work around the model, connect to enterprise data and services, and keep accelerators fed across increasingly complex AI systems."

Read more: AMD says its next-gen EPYC 'Venice' processor is over 3X faster than NVIDIA Vera
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As part of the announcement, AMD says that its 6th Gen AMD EPYC 'Venice' CPU lineup represents the world's best CPUs for cloud, enterprise, and AI, and the lineup is as broad as it is purpose-built.

The AMD EPYC 9006 SP7 is tailor-made for agentic AI, featuring up to 256 cores and 512 threads, with up to 5 GHz of high-frequency performance. It also improves I/O with up to 128 lanes of PCIe Gen6 at 64 Gbps, plus 5th-Gen Infinity Fabric for CPU-to-GPU improvements that AMD says enable it to deliver more agents per watt, per dollar, and per rack than the competition. The AMD EPYC 9006X SP7 variant triples the L3 cache per core, while also boosting the frequency to 5.15 GHz and ramping up memory bandwidth for more data-intensive HPC workloads.

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On the other hand, the AMD EPYC 9006 SP8 is built for efficient agentic AI and enterprise, with a flexible 8- to 128-core design for power-constrained racks and edge computing. Rounding out the lineup, you've got the AMD EPYC 9006 LP, aka 'Verano', for rack-scale AI solutions with up to 72 cores, LPDDR5X memory support, and 112 Gbps CPU-to-GPU bandwidth.

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Which AMD EPYC 9006 model is optimized specifically for agentic AI and what are its maximum core and thread counts?

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Which EPYC 9006 SKU is intended for power-constrained racks and edge computing and what is its core range?

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And with all of that, AMD notes that throughput and per-core performance leave NVIDIA's new 88-core Vera CPU in its wake, with 2.2X the throughput when looking at the 256-core variant, and 1.2X the per-core performance when comparing the 96-core AMD EPYC 9006X SP7 to Vera.