Tests put dual EPYC 9996 server 93% ahead of predecessor in integer throughput

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Published Tuesday, November 10, 2026 · 12:56 PM EST

Tom's Hardware measured a 93% integer-throughput gain for a dual-socket AMD EPYC 9996 server over its tested EPYC 9965 system in SPEC CPU 2026. The newer system provided 1,024 threads, compared with 768 for the predecessor. The Venice test platform used 16 memory channels per socket and DDR5-12800 memory. Its denser Zen 6c chips support 256 cores per socket. These results measure whole-server throughput rather than an equivalent-core comparison. The publication classifies its SPEC results as estimates because it has not submitted them to the SPEC committee.

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