AMD has followed up its Advancing AI data release with a new blog and a white paper on EPYC Venice that attempts to put real detail behind the claims first made on stage in July. The 2.24x platform and 1.2x per-core advantages over NVIDIA Vera in SPECrate 2026 Integer now come with estimated scores, compiler versions, memory configurations, and all 14 subtests broken out. The generational data is impressive, with the 256-core EPYC 9996 landing between roughly 1.5x and 1.8x over the 192-core Turin flagship across Redis, NGINX, MySQL, MongoDB, and server-side Java, all measured by AMD on Venice silicon. @AMD also rebuilt its 100 kW rack model around SPEC CPU 2026, which moved Venice to 3.4x over Vera and nudged its own Turin figure down slightly. The core story is the same one AMD told at Advancing AI, now with some supporting detail. The agents-per-watt and performance-per-watt claims from the keynote have no backing data in this paper, interestingly. All of it is AMD internal testing or estimates, so independent results on shipping systems from both vendors are what will settle the debate. Blog: White paper: