{
  "id": 19682494,
  "title": "AMD Zen 6 SMT Proves Very Advantageous Even For 256 Core EPYC 9996",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/amd-zen-6-smt-proves-very-advantageous-even-for-256-core-epyc-9996",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-12T16:40:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phoronix",
    "slug": "phoronix",
    "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-zen6-smt"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "With the now-shipping AMD EPYC 9006 \"Venice\" SP7 server processors sporting up to 256 Zen 6(C) cores per socket, or 512 cores in a 2P configuration, you may be wondering if Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) is still worthwhile on these increasingly high core count processors. Long story short, SMT on AMD Zen 6 is still definitely worthwhile from a performance and power perspective. I was curious…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}