Tuesday, September 29th 2026

AMD Publishes Full EPYC 9006 "Venice" Specs and Pricing: 8-Core at $700, 256-Core at $14,904

AMD has published the full EPYC 9006 "Venice" lineup on its product page, listing specifications and 1,000-unit pricing for all 31 Zen 6 server processors across the SP7 and SP8 platforms. Prices start at $700 for the 8-core EPYC 9016 and top out at $14,904 for the 256-core EPYC 9996. AMD says the specifications are subject to change. The EPYC 9996 is the flagship, with 256 Zen 6c cores and 512 threads, a 2.55 GHz base clock, up to 4.1 GHz boost, 1 GB of L3 cache, and a default CPU power of 600 W (configurable from 400 W to 600 W). That works out to roughly $58 per core, and it costs about the same as the 192-core EPYC 9965 did at launch, which was around $14,800.

The SP7 platform covers nine chips, from the 64-core EPYC 9556 at $8,008 up to the 9996. The 22 chips on the SP8 platform run from 8 cores up to the 128-core EPYC 9746 at $11,679. AMD has also retired TDP as its power label for this generation, using "Default CPU Power" instead. SP7 systems are expected in Q4 2026, with SP8 following in the first half of 2027. These are 1Ku prices, so what OEMs charge for complete systems will probably look quite different. Nevertheless, it looks like the EPYC 9996 is the one to watch for this generation, especially after AMD's claims of beating NVIDIA's Vera CPUs by a significant margin.
Source: AMD
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13 Comments on AMD Publishes Full EPYC 9006 "Venice" Specs and Pricing: 8-Core at $700, 256-Core at $14,904

#1
dgianstefani
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9176F looks interesting, but boards and memory will be silly pricing.
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#2
dir_d
dgianstefani9176F looks interesting, but boards and memory will be silly pricing.
I'm guessing a variant of that will be reaching the comsumer market in the next year. Most likely it will be an X3D chip instead of a high L3 model.
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#3
harm9963
Desktop CPU flagship will be well over 1000 dollars, might be my first time passing on a flagship CPU , my 5950X new was $800 plus tax, but at least Ram was dirt cheap ,
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#5
xorbe
256-core cpu $15K, 4TB memory $80K, getting gaslit by the ai, priceless.
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#6
wNotyarD
I swear I have difficulty seeing logic behind the model numbering for Epyc.
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#7
Wirko
It's not really clear which models are built with Zen 6 chiplets and which ones use Zen 6c. But obviously the 6c chiplets have 4 MB of L3 per core, which is double that of 4c and 5c. Was this known before?
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#8
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wNotyarDI swear I have difficulty seeing logic behind the model numbering for Epyc.
And luckily everyone forgot 2005's Athlon64 Venice.
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#9
kazuviking
Based on this expect 12 core ZEN6 to be fucking expensive when it releases.
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#10
The Von Matrices
Can someone explain what "G" means in AMD's EYPC nomenclature? For client CPUs it means it has integrated graphics, but what is the 9G76?
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#11
AusWolf
DrUsmanSaleemAMD has also retired TDP as its power label for this generation, using "Default CPU Power" instead.
Good. AMD's TDP formula never made sense anyway.
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#12
Tomorrow
harm9963Desktop CPU flagship will be well over 1000 dollars, might be my first time passing on a flagship CPU , my 5950X new was $800 plus tax, but at least Ram was dirt cheap ,
This is not Nvidia vs AMD situation on the GPU market. As long s there's competition between Intel and AMD (much more equal footing now in terms of market share) i dont see that happening.

Will it be more expensive than the exiting ones? Almost certainty yes because TSMC N2P isn't cheap, but given the chiplet size that remains roughly the same i dont foresee anything absurd either.
kazuvikingBased on this expect 12 core ZEN6 to be fucking expensive when it releases.
Which one and how expensive? There wont be just a single 12c SKU.
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#13
tyzdochnes
amd sheet, was good in times X399 , cheap 260 usd mobo and THR cpu,, 64 pcie 3 lanes for all,, todays amd is just " big bad intel"
i have 285k and go buy another intel ,270k,
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