


Talking about Genoa CPUs themselves, the chips will pack a mammoth 96 cores and 192 threads. The socket will support AMD's EPYC Genoa and future generations of EPYC chips. If the cTDP is exceeded, then the EPYC chips featured on the SP5 socket will return to these limits within 30ms. It looks like the peak power of the LGA 6096 SP5 socket will be rated at up to 700W which will only last for 1ms, the peak power at 10ms is rated at 440W while the peak power with PCC is rated at 600W. We have already listed the size and dimensions of this socket above so let's talk of its power ratings. This will be by far the biggest socket that AMD has ever designed with 2002 more pins than the existing LGA 4094 socket.

The LGA 6096 socket will feature 6096 pins arrange in the LGA (Land Grid Array) format.

Do note how the number of pins comes close to the area size of each respective socket. The Genoa package measures 5428mm2 while the socket has a total area of 6080 mm2 while SP3 measures 4410mm2. The package and socket size has increased a lot & that is mainly due to the fact that EPYC Genoa chips incorporate 50% more CCDs than EPYC Milan chips (12 vs 8 CCDs). The IOD is also 5% smaller (416mm vs 397mm).
