AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today announced the general availability of its 6th Gen AMD EPYC server SP7 processors, built on the new "Zen 6" architecture, extending the company's historical server CPU performance leadership as AI creates new demands across the data center. Systems powered by the new CPUs are shipping from all leading server vendors, and cloud instances from Microsoft Azure and OCI are coming soon. Across five generations, AMD EPYC processors have repeatedly raised the standard for server CPU performance, energy efficiency and platform choice, culminating in 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors becoming the fastest-ramping and highest-volume EPYC generation in AMD history.
"AI is significantly expanding the role of the CPU across every layer of the data center," said Dan Mc Namara, senior vice president and general manager, Compute and Enterprise AI at AMD. "With 6th Gen AMD EPYC, customers can standardize on the proven x86 foundation while choosing a workload-optimized solution to run more agents, keep accelerated infrastructure fed and power the business-critical applications they depend on."
6th Gen AMD EPYC is the world's best server CPU portfolio, delivering leadership performance across a diversity of applications while improving infrastructure economics and preserving the flexibility of the broad x86 ecosystem. The 6th Gen AMD EPYC 9996 CPU is the world's best general-purpose processor, delivering leadership performance, performance per CPU watt, performance per CPU dollar and performance per socket. An AMD EPYC 9996 CPU-based system delivers up to 3.7x more performance compared with an NVIDIA Vera CPU-based system.
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