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AMD Zen 6 SMT Proves Very Advantageous Even For 256 Core EPYC 9996


With the now-shipping AMD EPYC 9006 'Venice' SP7 server processors sporting up to 256 Zen 6(C) cores per socket, or 512 cores in a 2P configuration, you may be wondering if Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) is still worthwhile on these increasingly high core count processors.

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