The upcoming AMD Zen 6 architecture has appeared in the Geekbench database, revealing significant performance improvements over the previous generation. According to reports, the new architecture demonstrates a substantial increase in per-clock performance compared to Zen 5.
The benchmark featured the flagship AMD EPYC 9996 processor, which is equipped with 256 cores and 512 threads. The chip includes 1.0GB of L3 cache and 256MB of L2 cache, with a rated TDP of 600W that can be configured down to 400W.
During testing at a boost clock frequency of 4.12GHz, the processor achieved a single-core score of 2847 and a multi-core score of 68427 in Geekbench 7.1. Analysts compared these results against the Zen 5 EPYC 4545P, which operates at a boost frequency of approximately 5.5GHz.
Calculations indicate that the Zen 6 architecture offers a per-clock performance lead of up to 24% over Zen 5. Further comparisons involving the Ryzen 7 9700X at 4.1GHz with DDR5-6000 CL34 memory show an average performance gain of 16.5%, with peak differences reaching 24% to 25%.
