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I'm confused. Xeon-W more directly compares with Threadripper. Xeon-SP compares with Epyc. Why is this comparison even a thing? Also, I need to bring this up e
by 013a 9y ago
I'm confused. Xeon-W more directly compares with Threadripper. Xeon-SP compares with Epyc. Why is this comparison even a thing?
Also, I need to bring this up every time we have an "AMD is destroying Intel" post: Intel's per-core performance is still higher than AMD, somewhere around 10% depending on the application.
AMD is competitive again, which is great. But I'm still buying Intel because my use-cases demand maximum per-core performance.
- redial 9y agoYou don't need to bring it up, is right there in the article. There are many use cases, and maybe to you per-core performance is paramount, but he's making the case that for the market Xeon-Ws are aimed at, cores are more important than 10% peak performance, otherwise you wouldn't be buying a 36 core monster to begin with.