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There have got to be customers out there for whom 10%+ base frequency performance is worth well north of $5K. No reason not to capture margin for a handful of
by twoodfin 7y ago
There have got to be customers out there for whom 10%+ base frequency performance is worth well north of $5K.
No reason not to capture margin for a handful of top-binned chips.
- tootie 7y agoThere's plenty of times that extra compute capacity saves money, but not spending $5K to get a relatively small bump in clock on one chip. $5K will get you way more compute power if you just spend it another machine.
- cosmodisk 7y agoJust the mere fact that such a processor exists,is not in the official catalog and costs substantially more, tells me that there's adequate demand for these or at least the particular customer has very deep pockets if they can ask for custom build.
- twoodfin 7y agoSure, if what you’re doing is easily scalable to another machine. There’s a lot of software out there, legacy and otherwise, where the throughput ceiling is what you can do with one box.
- testis321 7y agoIf you pay licences per machine/cpu socket/cpu core, those $5k might be your cheapest option.