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Can’t get high utilization modern cpu on cloud for cheap. Ryzen 7950x single core very fast and very cheap.

• trillic 3y ago
  You want a consumer desktop chip in your server? Consider the I/O.
  • Nextgrid 3y ago
    If he can buy 2 (or more) consumer-grade chips for the price of one enterprise-grade one and split his workload across them then it still makes more sense to go for the consumer version. Consumer hardware gets undeserved bad rap despite being a good fit for many of today's "cloud-native" and fault-tolerant workloads. Don't run critical infra on it that can't be fault tolerant (conventional RDBMS), but for your cluster of queue workers? Go right ahead since the queue is designed to handle failure of any nodes gracefully.
  • jrockway 3y ago
    I think it's a great choice for a lot of workloads, especially CI.
  • renewiltord 3y ago
    Some places performance/price matters most. Some places raw performance. 7950x outperforms cloud processor and cheap. But use Epyc in other places. Just empirical optimum.