AMD has officially revealed new details about its next-generation Zen 6 architecture during its latest Financial Analyst Day, confirming major performance gains for the upcoming EPYC Venice server CPUs. The company also shared new information about FSR Ray Regeneration, debuting in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.
🚀 Zen 6 EPYC Venice: Over 70% Performance & Efficiency Boost #
According to AMD’s latest roadmap and performance projections, EPYC Venice will deliver over 70% improvement in both performance and energy efficiency compared to the current Zen 5-based EPYC Turin lineup. These figures reflect server workloads but also highlight the architectural leap Zen 6 aims to bring across AMD’s entire CPU portfolio.
A key driver of this uplift is a major increase in thread density:
- Up to 256 cores / 512 threads,
- A 33% increase over EPYC Turin’s 192-core maximum.
Of the projected 70% performance uplift, 33.3% is attributed to the higher core count, with the remainder coming from:
- IPC improvements
- Frequency enhancements
- Architectural optimizations
- Platform-level efficiencies
🔧 Built on TSMC 2nm with GAA Transistors #
Zen 6 will transition to TSMC’s next-generation 2nm process, marking AMD’s shift from FinFET to GAA (Gate-All-Around) transistor technology. Expected benefits at equal power include:
- 10–15% performance increase
- 25–30% power reduction
- Up to 15% transistor density uplift
This process will extend beyond EPYC to upcoming consumer platforms:
- Olympic Ridge (desktop)
- Medusa / Gator (mobile)
Importantly, AMD clarified that the performance figures disclosed are not AI metrics. They are based on SPECrate 2017 INT comparisons between dual-socket Zen 6 EPYC Venice and dual-socket Zen 5 EPYC Turin.
🎮 FSR Ray Regeneration Makes Its Global Debut #
On the graphics front, AMD confirmed that FSR Ray Regeneration, part of the upcoming FSR Redstone update, will first appear in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 on launch day.
What is FSR Ray Regeneration? #
It is AMD’s new machine-learning-based real-time ray tracing denoiser, replacing traditional GPU denoisers for clearer and sharper reflections, shadows, and lighting.
Key benefits:
- Cleaner and more detailed ray-traced effects
- Reduced noise and artifacts
- Higher visual clarity before upscaling and frame generation
- Improved cinematic feel and immersion
Only Ray Regeneration is included in this release; the full Redstone suite is not yet available.
What’s Coming in the Full FSR Redstone Update? #
AMD plans four core ML-powered technologies:
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Neural Radiance Caching
Real-time, AI-driven global illumination prediction. -
ML Ray Regeneration
(The feature launching now) AI-enhanced ray-traced detail reconstruction. -
ML Super Resolution (FSR 4)
High-quality image reconstruction from lower-res frames. -
ML Frame Generation
AI-generated intermediate frames for smoother gameplay.
However, FSR Redstone support is currently limited to RDNA 4 GPUs, meaning earlier Radeon generations will not benefit from these features at launch.