AMD EPYC 9996

The EPYC 9996 is the flagship of AMD's 6th Gen EPYC 9006 series, announced on July 23, 2026, with 256 cores and 512 threads per socket, the highest core count in the lineup. Built on the density-optimized Zen 6c core for the SP7 platform, it runs at 2.55 GHz base and up to 4.1 GHz boost with 1,024 MB of L3 cache. It supports one- or two-socket systems, giving up to 512 cores in a dual-socket server; SP7 provides sixteen channels of DDR5 RDIMM or MRDIMM memory per socket and 96 lanes of PCIe 6.0. CPU power defaults to 600 W and is configurable from 400 W to 600 W.