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It's always a good idea to look at the performance/$ charts before jumping in on workstation CPU wagon: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html ht

by soygul 6y ago

It's always a good idea to look at the performance/$ charts before jumping in on workstation CPU wagon: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html AMD Ryzen 5 3600 currently rocks 103 CPU-Mark/$ whereas Threadripper 3960X has 40 CPU-Mark/$. You get a lot of power out of Threadrippers but you loose a lot of value.

htfy96 6y ago
A major drawback of CPU benchmark is that it doesn't include second-hand CPU prices. Actually many older series of Xeon CPUs can have better score/$ ratio. For example: E5 2695V4 is sold at $199 on AliExpress with ~20000 benchmark score on cpubenchmark (excluding the last anomaly data point), which suggests ~100 CPU-Mark/$
- soygul 6y ago
  Hm that is actually good point. But newer CPUs will pay off with their energy efficiency in comparison to older generations.
  - htfy96 6y ago
    That makes sense for a single-socket workstation. A main advantage of old Xeons over R5 3600 is dual socket.
gameswithgo 6y ago
That delta might be a lot smaller for workloads that need the higher memory bandwidth of the threadripper motherboards.