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You conveniently ignored that the top Xeon-W processor has 28 cores, not 18, and 2.5 GHz, not 2.3 GHz base clock. So your calculation for Intel should be more l
by mamon 9y ago
You conveniently ignored that the top Xeon-W processor has 28 cores, not 18, and 2.5 GHz, not 2.3 GHz base clock. So your calculation for Intel should be more like 2.8 * 0.76 = 2.13. We are not comparing against i9-7980XE here.
Still, EPYC wins on max memory (2TB per processor) and number of PCI-e lanes (128 vs 48). And of course the price.
- tristanj 9y ago>the top Xeon-W processor has 28 cores No, the top Xeon-W processor has 18 cores. The 28 core processor is a Xenon Platinum.
- mamon 9y agoSorry, I got confused by the article. Anyway, should we compare by price or compare best Intel chip to best AMD chip? Because EPYC processors are priced closer to Xeon-W line, but have the number of cores topping Xeon Platinum :)
- c2h5oh 9y agoThe comparison is somewhat weird and the space is a bit weird: - Xeon-w cpus seem to be i9 HEDT just without disabled ECC - everything else (beside a price premium) is the same - Epyc CPUs are server CPUs and I'm not aware of any desktop motherboards for them, but considering 32 core Epyc has the same TDP as Threadripper they could release a desktop variant (different socket) - Xeon-W and i9s with more than 10 cores have only been announced, you can't buy them yet so it's a comparison of parts you can't get your hands on with either parts in a different space or ones that were not announced yet