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Go for an AMD chip, you get 60-128 general purpose Pcie lanes.
by AlphaSite 9y ago
Go for an AMD chip, you get 60-128 general purpose Pcie lanes.
- dragontamer 9y agoWell, Threadripper AMD anyway. The key is if PCIe lanes are important, you need to buy a Motherboard that supports a high number of PCIe lanes. AMD's Threadripper is cheap (for a workstation) and supports 64+ PCIe Lanes. Intel's "extreme" line (both chips and motherboard) are the high PCIe count workhorses, as well as their Xeon chips. But they are much more expensive than AMD's solution. Even then, an Intel 6950X "only" has 40-PCIe lanes. I wonder if Intel's new line of "Extreme" will up the PCIe count to better compete vs AMD.
- dirtyaura 9y agoI understood that for a hobbyist, who doesn't hand-optimizate preprocessing, good single thread performance is better with numpy. From that front Intel is better.