AMD claims an average 27% increase in instructions per clock over Zen 5 in selected server workloads. The test setup is worth knowing about, though. AMD ran 16 active Zen 6c cores on one chiplet against 16 Zen 5 cores split over two chiplets, with both clocked at the same speed. In enterprise and cloud workloads, the company reports a gain of around 20%, which is still healthy. A regular Zen 6 chiplet now carries 12 cores instead of eight, and its shared L3 cache has grown from 32MB to 48MB....
