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It would seem this devkit is even more ideal for you? 80 cores and buy as little memory as you want. Not to mention it does not need clustering and runs any aar

It would seem this devkit is even more ideal for you? 80 cores and buy as little memory as you want. Not to mention it does not need clustering and runs any aarch64 distro of your choosing

cjbgkagh 4y ago
I checked out the benchmarks and it seems that the 80 core version would be ~6.5x M2 and would indeed be cheaper on the assumption that the only way to get M2 chips is to first buy a Mac. But if (an I know it isn’t going to happen) M2 was at the Jetson Nano price of $150 then it starts to become attractive again. It’s 2.3x faster than Ryzen 7900X, I’m not sure if the dev kit has a price performance advantage over that and I’ve seen the Ampere Altra chips on their own for much more so I’m thinking the dev kit has a discount which probably comes with a purchase limit.
- joespeed 4y ago
  The dev kit has no purchase limit. Same is true for the dev platform workstation 32, 64, 80, 128 core (and a 96 faster cores option if you ask nicely). https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ampere-64-core-arm-workstation-runs-windows https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ampere-64-core-arm-worksta... For those keeping score the Ampere Altra 128 core 3GHz Supermicro telco edge server being used in 5G base stations benchmarks equal to 100 RPi4 and 22% more energy efficient. https://youtu.be/UT5UbSJOyog https://youtu.be/UT5UbSJOyog
  - cjbgkagh 4y ago
    Interesting, when I first saw these chips my thought was Epic performance for Epic prices, now it looks like 2x Ryzen performance for 2x the price. Which is a huge improvement, I could save on the other ancillary costs of putting together a computer so it could probably be quite cost effective overall. I think I’m just outside of the target market for these chips, my workloads are in bursts so power consumption isn’t a big deal for me. Given that it’s a big deal for others I would expect Ampere Altra to price their chips to a point to go after that market which makes total economic sense. It’s generally not good business to target cheapskates like myself. I do love the chips though.

It would seem this devkit is even more ideal for you? 80 cores and buy as little memory as you want. Not to mention it does not need clustering and runs any aarch64 distro of your choosing

cjbgkagh 4y ago

I checked out the benchmarks and it seems that the 80 core version would be ~6.5x M2 and would indeed be cheaper on the assumption that the only way to get M2 chips is to first buy a Mac. But if (an I know it isn’t going to happen) M2 was at the Jetson Nano price of $150 then it starts to become attractive again. It’s 2.3x faster than Ryzen 7900X, I’m not sure if the dev kit has a price performance advantage over that and I’ve seen the Ampere Altra chips on their own for much more so I’m thinking the dev kit has a discount which probably comes with a purchase limit.

joespeed 4y ago
The dev kit has no purchase limit. Same is true for the dev platform workstation 32, 64, 80, 128 core (and a 96 faster cores option if you ask nicely). https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ampere-64-core-arm-workstation-runs-windows https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ampere-64-core-arm-worksta... For those keeping score the Ampere Altra 128 core 3GHz Supermicro telco edge server being used in 5G base stations benchmarks equal to 100 RPi4 and 22% more energy efficient. https://youtu.be/UT5UbSJOyog https://youtu.be/UT5UbSJOyog
- cjbgkagh 4y ago
  Interesting, when I first saw these chips my thought was Epic performance for Epic prices, now it looks like 2x Ryzen performance for 2x the price. Which is a huge improvement, I could save on the other ancillary costs of putting together a computer so it could probably be quite cost effective overall. I think I’m just outside of the target market for these chips, my workloads are in bursts so power consumption isn’t a big deal for me. Given that it’s a big deal for others I would expect Ampere Altra to price their chips to a point to go after that market which makes total economic sense. It’s generally not good business to target cheapskates like myself. I do love the chips though.