I'm saying there is a reason to favor a CPU with avx512. The reason may not apply to you / your work flow. If your number crunching is just neural networks on

I'm saying there is a reason to favor a CPU with avx512. The reason may not apply to you / your work flow. If your number crunching is just neural networks on your GPU, then the CPU doesn't matter. But there's probably a lot of overlap between the folks who train neural networks, and those who may do linear algebra, MCMC, or traditional stats that are much better suited to the CPU. That is, conditioning on person A being someone who trains NNs, there is a higher probability that they're someone who would be interested in CPU intensive tasks that benefit from vectorization. If that isn't you, don't factor it into your decision. I do most of my number crunching on the CPU, so my choice is clear. The reviews of avx512 are generally poor (disable it so you don't get thermal throttling!), while the Threadrippers receive a lot of praise. But within it's own niche (linear algebra, many iterative algorithms), the widest vectors are king.