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In October, Geekbench 7 results for an AMD EPYC 9996 using Zen 6c cores showed a 16.49% single-threaded performance increase over a 4.1 GHz Zen 5 Ryzen 7 9700X. These Zen 6c results also indicated an IPC increase of approximately 23.36% when comparing normalized frequencies against a Zen 5 EPYC 4545P. Additionally, analyst 1usmus claims that upcoming 12-core Zen 6 CPUs could deliver multi-threaded Cinebench performance close to the 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.
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A firmware commit for the 1AH_M80H platform indicates that the AMD Platform Management Framework trusted application now runs on a RISC-V based TEE.
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Geekbench 7 results for an AMD EPYC 9996 CPU using Zen 6c cores show a 16.49% single-threaded performance increase over a Zen 5 Ryzen 7 9700X at 4.1 GHz.
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Hardware analyst 1usmus claims upcoming 12-core Zen 6 CPUs could provide multi-threaded Cinebench performance close to the 16-core Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.
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