Saturday, September 9th 2023
Leak Suggests AMD 6th Gen EPYC "Venice" CPUs Linked to New SP7 Socket
Hardware leaker, YuuKi_AnS, has briefly turned their attention away from all things Team Blue—their latest leak points to upcoming server-grade processors chez AMD. A Zen 6 core-based 9006 EPYC CPU series, codenamed "Venice," is expected to arrive within two to three years along with an all-new SP7 socket—this information seems to have been sourced from an unnamed server manufacturer's product roadmap. A partial view of said slide also reveals forthcoming equipment powered by Intel "Falcon Shore" and NVIDIA "Blackwell" GPU technologies.
As reported a couple of months ago, older insider info has AMD using "Weisshorn" as an in-house moniker for Zen 6 "Morpheus" architecture, destined for Venice CPUs—alleged to form part of a 2025/2026 EPYC lineup. YuuKi_AnS proposes that these will utilize either 12-channel or 16-channel DDR5 memory configurations—thus providing plenty of bandwidth across hundreds of Zen cores. Altogether very handy for cloud, enterprise, and HPC workloads—industry experts reckon that 384-core counts are feasible on single packages. Naturally, a Team Red timeline dictates that Zen 5 "Nirvana" is due before Zen 6 "Morpheus," so EPYC 9005 "Turin(-X)" and 8005 "Turin-Dense" lineups are (allegedly) up for a 2024-ish launch window on SP5 (LGA-6096) and SP6 (LGA 4094) socket types.
Sources:
YuuKi_AnS, VideoCardz, Tom's Hardware
As reported a couple of months ago, older insider info has AMD using "Weisshorn" as an in-house moniker for Zen 6 "Morpheus" architecture, destined for Venice CPUs—alleged to form part of a 2025/2026 EPYC lineup. YuuKi_AnS proposes that these will utilize either 12-channel or 16-channel DDR5 memory configurations—thus providing plenty of bandwidth across hundreds of Zen cores. Altogether very handy for cloud, enterprise, and HPC workloads—industry experts reckon that 384-core counts are feasible on single packages. Naturally, a Team Red timeline dictates that Zen 5 "Nirvana" is due before Zen 6 "Morpheus," so EPYC 9005 "Turin(-X)" and 8005 "Turin-Dense" lineups are (allegedly) up for a 2024-ish launch window on SP5 (LGA-6096) and SP6 (LGA 4094) socket types.
17 Comments on Leak Suggests AMD 6th Gen EPYC "Venice" CPUs Linked to New SP7 Socket
Seriously, who the hell knows (or cares) what stuff is gonna be called 2-3 years from now, regardless of who makes it :D
As for the name being reused, not sure why but ATM it seems to be.
But competition like intel does this I guess
Given that this is in reference to AM5 and not discrete GPUs or mobile it's likely referring to an upgraded APU graphics architecture coming out in 2024. If AMD is releasing APUs in 2024 it's also very likely that non-X CPUs will also be available.
If we go back to AMD, if their managerial decisions lead to a loss, then the relevant employees will bear the penalty. But, this variety of products actually leverages architectures that were already built years ago. Examples are the 7020 and 7030 series mobile APUs. I don't think there is a capacity problem for them. Currently, the lithographic nodes with which they are produced are no longer on the "bloody edge".