AMD EPYC 9006 Venice vs. NVIDIA Vera Benchmarks For HPC Performance

Yesterday in the AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" SP7 launch testing were reviews of the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core processor as well as the EPYC 9686F 96-core high frequency part. There were hundreds of benchmarks looking at the gen-on-gen performance from EPYC Turin to EPYC Venice as well as against the Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids competition. For those wondering about how AMD EPYC Venice is competing with NVIDIA's Vera CPU, this article provides a look at those results for a range of HPC workloads. Due to not having persistent remote or physical access to NVIDIA Vera, for the Vera comparison figures against Venice I had to re-use some numbers from some weeks back during the last round of Vera benchmarking. In particular, last month's NVIDIA Vera HPC Performance Benchmarks Take On AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon. Due to difference in software stack I had to carry out additional runs on Venice separate from yesterday's launch testing using the leading-edge Ubuntu 26.10 with the Linux 7.3 kernel. Thus the standalone article for comparing against Vera and the EPYC/Xeon tests carried out for that prior article on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. GCC 15 was used as the default compiler given that was also used by Vera. It's with GCC 16 where Znver6 support is introduced and as time allows I'll have out more dedicated compiler benchmark articles for Venice / Zen 6. In addition to looking at the raw performance, the peak CPU frequency and CPU power consumption were also monitored throughout the benchmarking process.