AMD calls its Zen 6 EPYC 9996 the best general-purpose server CPU
6th Gen EPYC is shipping in servers. AMD's lead over Nvidia's Vera rests on a Vera score AMD estimated itself, while its Xeon and EPYC rows use published SPEC results.
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According to NVIDIA, Vera beats both the fastest and the leanest x86 CPU
NVIDIA's claim names neither the fastest nor the most efficient x86 CPU it beats, and its partner results each use a different baseline.
AMD Says Its EPYC Chips Beat NVIDIA’s New Vera CPU 3.4x in a Modeled Rack
AMD's new EPYC white paper claims a 3.4x rack-throughput lead over Nvidia's unreleased Vera CPU, up from 2.37x three months ago, on a revised benchmark mix.