AMD EPYC Venice “Zen 6” 192, 128, 64 Core CPU Samples Leak On SP7 Congo, Kenya, Nigeria Platforms

AMD’s next-generation EPYC Venice “Zen 6” CPU samples have leaked, giving us an early look at the SP7 platform & performance.

AMD SP7 Platform Leak Reveals Congo, Kenya, Nigeria Test Boards, Featuring Up To 192 Core EPYC Venice “Zen 6” CPUs

Venice is the codename for AMD’s 6th Gen EPYC family, which replaces the 5th Gen “Turin” lineup. The lineup will feature the brand new Zen 6 core architecture with up to 256 cores, and some big platform updates. Currently, AMD is shipping out its first Venice samples to customers, and some of these have now appeared within the openbenchmarking database.

The three platforms, which are EVBs of Evaluation boards for the next-gen processors, have appeared. These are named after African countries such as Congo, Kenya, and Nigeria. Each platform is tested with a unique Venice engineering sample, so let’s start with the highest-end config.

First up, we have the AMD Eng Sample “100-000001053-03” which features 192 cores, 384 threads, and a listed clock speed of 4.02 GHz. The SP7 platform was running with 8 sticks of 64 GB DDR5 memory with a rated transfer speed of 8000 MT/s. A second Congo platform was also spotted, but this time running a 64-core, 128-thread chip bearing the “100-000001863-02” ID, and with 4 sticks of 64 GB DDR5 memory rated at 6400 MT/s. Both of these chips were tested in the 7-Zip compression benchmark, but do keep in mind that these results are based on early engineering samples, and final performance should be much better.

Moving onwards, we have the Kenya platform, which was also tested with two chips. First up is the AMD EPYC Venice “100-000001056-09” sample, which features 128 cores, 256 threads, and a listed clock speed of 4.02 GHz. The platform was running two sticks of 128 GB DDR5 memory rated at 8000 MT/s. This lone Kenya sample was tested in the x265 benchmark.

Lastly, there were three entries for the Nigeria 2P platform, which was running 64, 128, and 192-core AMD EPYC Venice “Zen 6” engineering samples. There were two CPUs running since this is a dual socket “SP7” platform. The engineering samples include the 64-core “100-000002138-02”, the 128-core “100-000001056-03”, and the 192-core “100-000001051-08”. The platform was configured with up to 32 sticks of 64 GB DDR5 memory rated at 8000 MT/s, so that’s 2 TB of memory, but it can be expanded further with higher-density modules.

Also, the following is the breakdown of the die configurations of each of the six AMD EPYC Venice “Zen 6” CPU samples listed here:

While these scores are based on early engineering samples, we can still compare them to get an early look into what Venice has to offer, even in such an early state, versus the existing SKUs:

Even in an early engineering state, the AMD EPYC Venice “Zen 6” CPUs are delivering performance that matches or is very close to similar core count SKUs from the 5th Gen Turin lineup. This bodes well for the upcoming lineup for which AMD has already promised some big numbers.

With a 70% performance and efficiency uplift backed by a 30% increase in overall density, we should expect some big numbers when the final chips hit the market later this year. AMD’s EPYC Venice CPUs will be coupled with the new Instinct AI accelerators in the Helios AI rack launching in the second half of 2027.

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