That number isn’t important as a comparison point to Nvidia – again, we’re comparing a 256-core CPU to an 88-core one – but rather as a metric to see how Venice scales when normalized for per-core performance on a fully-loaded chip. That’s about 35% lower than the per-core score from the souped-up 9686F.
Although dissecting these numbers and sidelining the back-and-forth of two of the most powerful companies in the world is interesting, it’s not all that informative. SPEC maintains its strict reporting requirements for a reason. We won’t be able to say, with certainty, how these chips match up until we have official, reported runs. And even then, there’s an additional layer of compiler optimization (AMD and Nvidia both used GCC 15.2) and the broader context of the servers and workloads that these chips will serve.
The battle lines have been drawn, though only when looking at integer-based workloads. Vectorized performance is important, as well, and that’s an area where AMD holds a strong position in the current server CPU market. It doesn’t look like that will change with Vera, though we don’t have floating-point results to draw any conclusions from yet.
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