en.Wedoany.com Reported - Chip manufacturer AMD has released the first official benchmark results for its upcoming EPYC "Venice" CPU, claiming that in a rack-level deployment with a fixed power budget of 100kW, the chip delivers 3.3 times the performance of NVIDIA's Vera CPU. The Venice series will be the first to feature the Zen 6 architecture, with the flagship model boasting 256 cores.

AMD set the testing framework at the rack level, rather than individual socket or dual-socket systems. The results are based on modeling for a 100kW power consumption deployment, not actual physical testing. AMD first estimated power consumption based on processor TDP and other components to calculate the number of nodes (each node being a 2-socket system) within the 100kW budget, then multiplied the node count by the single-node performance measured in a few benchmark tests.

Since AMD does not actually possess NVIDIA's Vera chip, its performance data is estimated. AMD used its own benchmark results for NVIDIA's Grace chip and applied a scaling factor of 1.63 times based on Phoronix's published Vera results. Meanwhile, AMD stated that its results for the 256-core EPYC Venice are based on a 1.7 times scaling factor from the EPYC 9965 and internal testing. In its methodology paper, AMD noted that these results are intended to provide directional comparisons rather than directly measured rack-level benchmarks.

The tests covered multiple workloads, including server-side Java based on SPECjbb 2015, the WRK tool for NGINX web server loads, Redis-benchmark for memory workloads, memory caching using Memcached, and database performance on MySQL TPROC-C. These results are seen as AMD's counterpunch following Phoronix's release of NVIDIA Vera results, aimed at setting the stage for next month's Advancing AI event, where more details on Venice, the Zen 6 architecture, and AMD's enterprise roadmap are expected to be revealed.

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