AMD's sixth-generation EPYC server processors are shipping, and AMD says integer throughput reaches up to 3.7 times that of NVIDIA's Vera server processor, a comparison using AMD's internal estimate for Vera.

Concept illustration: a wide board hangs from two cords, with a white plate lettered "AMD" on the right of its black top band and a short line ending in a dot running left from the plate. Inside the board, along one baseline from left to right, stand a square chip, a tall red stack of horizontal slats, a second square chip and a much shorter beige stack of slats; a line runs down from the left chip to labels lettered "AMD" and "EPYC", and another runs down from the right chip to labels lettered "NVIDIA" (next to a small green mark) and "VERA". Printed on the image: 3.7x AMD's claimed maximum: EPYC integer throughput vs NVIDIA Vera, Vera's score estimated by AMD.

In AMD's comparison only the AMD and Intel scores are results published on spec.org, while the scores for NVIDIA's Vera and for AGI, an Arm-designed server processor, are AMD's estimates and can't serve as a third-party benchmark. The metric is SPECrate2017_int_base, which measures integer throughput, on two-socket systems throughout: EPYC 9996 scores 5,470, Intel's Xeon 6980P 2,510, and AMD estimates Vera at 1,459. AMD's other figure, "agents per watt," is estimated from processor thread counts according to AMD's footnote, not measured by running agents. AMD says Meta is among the first customers and is validating the platform (AMD, 2026-11-10). How we checked →

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