GoKawiilLeaked AMD EPYC 9996 benchmark shows Zen 6c single-core gains over Zen 5
A leaked GeekBench 7 result for AMD's unreleased 256-core EPYC 9996, built on Zen 6c cores, was compared directly against a Ryzen 7 9700X (Zen 5) clocked at the same 4.1GHz by enthusiast 326powah. The EPYC 9996 packs 128MB L3 cache per 32-core CCD across eight CCDs for 1GB total L3, plus a 1024-bit memory bus offering roughly 1.64 TB/s of bandwidth, though the test focused on single-threaded performance where bandwidth isn't a major factor.