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Except in the multicore workloads. Which is why you'd buy a Zen chip.
by trynumber9 9y ago
Except in the multicore workloads. Which is why you'd buy a Zen chip.
- holtalanm 9y agoagreed. Single-core, it looks like the i7 is the winner for now.
- vbezhenar 9y agoIt depends of whether your tasks are able to fill all cores with useful work all the time. Otherwise faster Intel would provide better value. I considered between ThreadRipper and 8700K and decided to go with Intel for the time. I can make use of ThreadRipper cores sometimes (project rebuild, reindexing, heavy multitasking with launching numerous VMs, IDEs, games at the same time), but 90% load will be on 1-2 cores and here Intel is clear winner, so having those 15 idling cores won't help that much in my case. Now difference between AMD and overclocked Intel is just too huge (30% or more), but I hope that with new Zens they'll be closer and it might be easier choice (if I would give up 10% of single-thread performance for 10 more cores, I would choose otherwise).