It’s the same cache amount and core count as Genoa-X, but with far faster cores.
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We’ve previously heard teases of Venice-X, and AMD has released variants of its Epyc chips like this in the past, such as Milan-X and Genoa-X. But we never saw Turin-X, and we haven’t gotten any concrete details about Venice-X up to this point. Now, we have a peek into what Venice-X will offer, which looks similar to Genoa-X in some regards.
AMD is sticking with 96 cores with Venice-X, as well as 1152 MB of stacked L3 cache. There are a few major differences compared to Genoa-X , however. First, AMD says clocks are much higher here, claiming Venice-X tops out at 5.15 GHz (the 96-core Epyc 9684X clocks up to 3.7 GHz). Venice-X also comes with the memory improvements available in most of the chips in the range.
It supports 16-channel memory, either with standard DDR5 RDIMMs at up to 8,000 MT/s or with new MRDIMMs 12,800 MT/s, offering up to 1.6 TB/s of aggregate memory bandwidth. The memory system in Venice broadly is a massive increase over Turin, nearly tripling the aggregate bandwidth, mainly on the back of speeds enabled by MRDIMMs.
Venice-X is one of four variations of AMD’s Zen 6 lineup for data centers, mainly targeting HPC workloads, with its massive L3 cache and relatively high clock speeds. Venice-X uses the same SP7 socket as the main Venice range. Other variations of Zen 6 offerings, including Verano, will use the SP8 socket instead.
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