AMD EPYC 9965 (Turin Dense)

192 Zen 5c cores on a single socket makes the EPYC 9965 one of the densest server chips shipping in 2026, built for large-scale deployments where core density and throughput per socket matter most. Existing Genoa customers get a real reason to consider the upgrade too: AMD reports a meaningful IPC gain over the previous generation, enough to justify refreshing even recently deployed racks. At $8,000-15,000 per socket it's not cheap, but for large-scale deployments the performance-per-dollar and performance-per-watt math still comes out ahead.