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29 Sep 2026, 7:20 PMTom's Hardware5.0 AMD drops an EPYC $15,000, 256-core beast

AMD has published full specifications and pricing for its EPYC 9006 "Venice" (Zen 6) server CPU lineup, with the range running from $700 at the bottom to $14,904 for the top part — headlined as a 256-core chip at roughly the $15,000 mark. The excerpt itself contains only the headline claim; no core counts per SKU, clock speeds, TDPs, memory or PCIe details, benchmarks, or availability dates are included in the text provided.

Why: This is a pricing reference point, not a decision you can act on yet: a 256-core server part at about $14,904 implies roughly $58 per core at the top of the stack, which is the number to compare against your current cloud or bare-metal per-core rates when you next size an inference or build fleet. Because the article text carries no TDP, memory bandwidth, or availability details, do not plan a migration off this item alone — wait for independent benchmarks, since per-core price says nothing about per-token throughput.

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