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No, bad idea. Test or check reviews for your common workloads first, then choose. New Zen cores quite powerful and there are many gotchas with AVX execution. In
by mda 7y ago
No, bad idea. Test or check reviews for your common workloads first, then choose. New Zen cores quite powerful and there are many gotchas with AVX execution. In most cases I can see AMD would be better overall or offer good value.
- gigatexal 7y agoI agree and I plan to.
- rbanffy 7y agoIndeed. With any microarchitecture (or ISA) change (and Intel -> AMD is a huge architectural one) you need to test your workloads. You'll find all sort of odd and surprising performance differences caused by throttling, the way caches behave, the way libraries choose code paths, various inter-core latencies, and so on. At least this is a move that doesn't require a full recompile.