AMD has published its first official benchmarks for the EPYC 'Venice' server CPUs, and the results are aimed squarely at Nvidia. According to Tom's Hardware, AMD claims the 256-core Venice chip is more than twice as fast as Nvidia's Vera processor, while the 96-core Venice model delivers roughly 20% higher per-core performance.
These figures are notable because Nvidia is pushing into data-center CPUs with Vera, and AMD is using these official benchmarks to frame Venice as a direct competitor. As with any vendor-provided benchmark, however, the numbers are AMD's claims and should be treated as such until independent testing confirms them.
If the performance holds up, Venice could give AMD a strong talking point across both highly threaded and per-core-sensitive server workloads. More clarity will come once final silicon reaches reviewers and customers.