AMD Unveils 256-Core Venice EPYC: A Massive Architectural Shift to Challenge Nvidia
AMD has detailed its 6th-generation EPYC 'Venice' processors, marking its largest architectural shift since 2019. The flagship 256-core chip features 1GB of L3 cache, 16 channels of DDR5, and PCIe 6.0 support. AMD claims it outperforms Nvidia's Vera CPU by 2.24x in throughput, though independent verification is pending.