AMD has announced general availability of its 6th Gen AMD EPYC server SP7 processors, based on the 'Zen 6' architecture.

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 10, 2026 — AMD today announced the general availability of the 6th Gen AMD EPYC server SP7 processors, based on the new "Zen 6" architecture, extending its historical server CPU performance leadership as AI creates new demands across the data center. Systems powered by the new CPUs are shipping from all leading server vendors, and cloud instances from Microsoft Azure and OCI are coming soon.

Across five generations, AMD EPYC processors have repeatedly raised the standard for server CPU performance, energy efficiency and platform choice, culminating in 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors becoming the fastest-ramping and highest-volume EPYC generation in AMD history. Now, 6th Gen AMD EPYC server CPUs extend AMD CPU leadership, running AI agents, accelerated infrastructure and critical enterprise applications, helping customers expand computing capacity that runs their businesses.

"AI is significantly expanding the role of the CPU across every layer of the data center," said Dan McNamara, senior vice president and general manager, Compute and Enterprise AI, AMD. "With 6th Gen AMD EPYC, customers can standardize on the proven x86 foundation while choosing a workload-optimized solution to run more agents, keep accelerated infrastructure fed and power the business-critical applications they depend on."

**World's Best Server CPU Portfolio for the Modern Data Center**

6th Gen AMD EPYC provides a workload-optimized stack that delivers leadership performance across a diversity of applications while improving infrastructure economics and preserving the flexibility of the broad x86 ecosystem.

Agentic AI adds even more diversity to a data center, as a single workflow can run agents, call models, retrieve data, execute code and interact with the databases and applications enterprises already depend on. The 6th Gen AMD EPYC portfolio is designed for that reality, matching CPU density, frequency, bandwidth and efficiency to each job while preserving one common software, security and operational foundation. That workload-optimized approach delivers advantages across critical areas including agentic AI, enterprise services and rack-scale solutions.

**Power More Enterprise and Cloud Services:** The 6th Gen AMD EPYC 9996 CPU is the world's best general-purpose processor, delivering leadership performance, performance per CPU watt, performance per CPU dollar and performance per socket. An AMD EPYC 9996 CPU-based system delivers up to 3.7x more performance compared with an Nvidia Vera CPU-based system and up to 2.2x the performance and 2.0x the performance per dollar of an Intel Xeon 6980P system. For customers, that can translate into more applications, transactions and users supported by each server, helping create capacity for new workloads within existing data center power and footprint limitations.

**Lead Across Every Tier of Agentic AI:** Agentic AI infrastructure spans three distinct CPU roles—general-purpose services, GPU host nodes and agent sandboxes—and 6th Gen AMD EPYC provides a workload-optimized processor for each. High-frequency host-node processors, with up to 5.3 GHz, can deliver up to 1.8x the LLM output throughput of previous generation EPYC processors, and high-density AMD EPYC processors can provide up to ~3.3x agents-per-CPU-watt advantage over Nvidia Vera and ~2.5x over Intel Xeon 6980P for hosting agent sandboxes. Additionally, for agent sandboxes, AMD EPYC 9996 CPU-based servers can support an estimated ~1.18x as many agents per rack within the same 35 kilowatt power envelope as systems using default power-management settings.

The competitive choice is increasingly straightforward. With 6th Gen AMD EPYC, customers do not have to settle for a one-size-fits-all CPU in a data center that is anything but uniform. AMD EPYC delivers the performance, choice and ecosystem support needed to move AI from answers to action and prepare for what comes next.

**From the Server to Rack-Scale AI**

6th Gen AMD EPYC extends its leadership from individual servers to AMD Helion agentic AI racks, giving customers three deployment options matched to how and where they operate: AMD Helion Liquid, designed to sit side-by-side with the AMD Helios rackscale solution in large-scale agentic AI deployments for maximum agent density; AMD Helion Air, for expanding agent capacity within existing air-cooled data centers; and AMD Helion Air Inference, for combining CPU execution and local GPU inference in one rack. AMD has worked across the server ecosystem to help develop the high-density AMD Helion rack, with some configurations reaching up to 73,728 threads in one rack, delivering the most agents available in a rack. Customers can choose the balance of CPU and GPU capacity, cooling and connectivity that fits their infrastructure as agent demand grows.

**Broad Ecosystem Support and Availability**

Systems powered by 6th Gen AMD EPYC server processors are shipping from leading server vendors.

Meta is working with AMD as a lead customer and has been validating 6th Gen AMD EPYC CPU-based platforms as the companies prepare for deployment at scale.

Microsoft Azure is bringing 6th Gen AMD EPYC to customers across the AI infrastructure stack, with Azure HDv2 now in preview for AI data processing, agentic AI and HPC; Azure HXv2 for EDA and technical computing; and Azure ND MI455X v7, based on AMD Helios, for production-scale AI inference.

AMD recently shared updates to its multigeneration collaboration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). OCI Compute E7 cloud compute instances will be powered by 6th Gen AMD EPYC server processors, supporting enterprise applications and the CPU services surrounding AI models.

With 6th Gen AMD EPYC, AMD is extending five generations of server CPU leadership into the agentic AI era, delivering more compute, better economics and more choice from the server to the rack. Across enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI infrastructure, EPYC provides a broad portfolio built for the workloads customers run today and what comes next.

**About AMD**

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