A several people have replied to you by mentioning the Ryzen kernel panics. That's a thing and it's getting fixed by hook or by crook, but it's not everything.

A several people have replied to you by mentioning the Ryzen kernel panics. That's a thing and it's getting fixed by hook or by crook, but it's not everything. Here[1] is an example; Ryzen only received no-workarounds-needed support for ESXi 30 days ago. Another[1]; you can't monitor CPU temps in Linux yet for lack of driver support. That sort of thing is a non-starter in a cloud data center when you're managing megawatts. The truth is that the 'enterprise' has been wrapped around the Intel axle for years and AMD has a lot of catch up to do before it has parity with Intel. There are enterprise people that will adopt AMD for the shear $/compute value, but until you can find rackable Dell SKUs and Supermicro server motherboards with AMD sockets and the whole 'enterprise' software stack is fully ironed out Intel can and will command a premium. It will happen, eventually (assuming AMD continues to compete,) but it's not here yet. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6que0q/esxi_65_now_works_on_amd_ryzen_with_smtall_cores/?st=j724hnn3&sh=46f4e519 https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6que0q/esxi_65_now_wor... [2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-ryzen1700-oc&num=1 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-ryzen...