Indeed, there is a realm of astronomical hardware that is covered by power9 that you're not finding amd hardware for, but going down to "merely the price of a n

Indeed, there is a realm of astronomical hardware that is covered by power9 that you're not finding amd hardware for, but going down to "merely the price of a new car" and below is where the comparison falls apart. And the astronomical end really only matters if you need special requirements like single system images... if you just need lots of cycles or memory bandwidth, a cluster of lower end hosts (and 40GBE nics) is a lot less pricey. > a POWER9 that could compete with low-end Xeon servers. The Talos II is in the vague order of magnitude for that... which is A LOT better than before it existed.