I like to hate on Intel as much as the next guy but as someone currently shopping for a new workstation, I still see Intel as having the better offerings across

I like to hate on Intel as much as the next guy but as someone currently shopping for a new workstation, I still see Intel as having the better offerings across the board, at least if you're not taking price into consideration. Take for example their HEDT competitor, Threadripper. As much as I want to like it, the fact that two of the cores don't have direct memory access really is a problem. You can see the detrimental effects this can have: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13516/the-amd-threadripper-2-cpu-review-pt2-2970wx-2920x/7 https://www.anandtech.com/show/13516/the-amd-threadripper-2-...