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> Who buys chips like this and what are they used for? I imagine cloud service providers would buy it. On a price/performance chart, you'd think you'd be bett
by Sohcahtoa82 2y ago
> Who buys chips like this and what are they used for?
I imagine cloud service providers would buy it.
On a price/performance chart, you'd think you'd be better off buying consumer-grade Core i9 CPUs, or even i7, but that ignores everything else that must be bought, like a motherboard and RAM, and doesn't even account for the added rack space.
Put 256 GB of RAM next to that CPU and AWS can host 64 c7i.large (2 core, 4 GB) instances for $64/month each, $4,096/month. They'd see RoI in under 5 months for the CPU.
But really, this CPU is great for any embarrassingly parallel task that doesn't run well on a GPU.