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How would this compare to a ThreadRipper/EPYC system? Any advantages in favor of Talos?

• rekado 9y ago
  Do you not consider the freedom aspects (e.g. sources to the secure boot implementation, no x86, etc) as advantages in favour of Talos?
  • bitL 9y ago
    That's definitely nice! Any other advantages?
    • orbifold 9y ago
      The Power9 should be more performant than EPYC/ThreadRipper and CAPI gives you higher memory bandwidth to a GPU.
      • striking 9y ago
        Are there any benchmarks that I can look at for this?
        • milcron 9y ago
          Here is a comparison of POWER8 vs Intel Xeon http://www.anandtech.com/show/10435/assessing-ibms-power8-part-1/3 http://www.anandtech.com/show/10435/assessing-ibms-power8-pa...
• eeks 9y ago
  Huge memory BW, CAPI2, 8-way SMT, 120MB L3 cache, L4 cache, compression and crypto coprocessor, etc...
  • CrystalGamma 9y ago
    They are selling Scale-Out processors here, which IIRC “only” have 4-way SMT (which will, given IBM's track record, still actually give a ~2.5x improvement over no SMT, unlike <1.5x for SMT2 in Intel/AMD)