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> The new Milan chips are not for everyone, of course, and are designed for those who are looking for the best price/performance, not the absolute best performa
by gtirloni 3y ago
> The new Milan chips are not for everyone, of course, and are designed for those who are looking for the best price/performance, not the absolute best performance or lowest performance per watt that AMD can deliver in its now wide and deep CPU lineup. But if you are doing HPC on the cheap, you need to take a look at these new Milan CPUs
So middle of the road, like most things for the general customer base.
Who's looking for the lowest performance per watt?
The article makes these processors look like specialty things.
- taspeotis 3y agoI think they mean lowest performance per watt ratio.
- mkesper 3y agoI think they got it backwards and meant highest performance per watt or lowest wattage per performance.
- rbanffy 3y agoLowest performance per watt has been the domain of x86 for a while now ;-) Where they shone has always been highest single-thread performance per capex dollar (not necessarily per opex, which is highly influenced by power consumption). When you add everything, the CPU is a relatively minor part of the server - a lot of energy is going to storage, memory, networking and other non-application activities, as well as memory and vector pipelines in GPUs (often a lot more than whatever goes into the CPU). Being less burdened by compatibility, ARM is in a much better place WRT performance per watt. I expect RISC-V to be in a similar position soon.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoDoesn't "lowest performance per watt" already imply a ratio? I think this is a mistake from the author.