you're under-estimating the power of 512 mb of cache, 12 channel ddr5, pcie 5 NVMEs and 880GB/s networking cards. The giant L3 cache means that memory pressure

you're under-estimating the power of 512 mb of cache, 12 channel ddr5, pcie 5 NVMEs and 880GB/s networking cards. The giant L3 cache means that memory pressure is significantly reduced (especially if many of the cores use similar data). Ram is the weakest link here (12 channels of ddr5 6000 is a ton from a consumer standpoint, but scaling up from dual channel on a 16 core cpu would only bring you up to 96 cores). The 128 lanes of PCIE though means that you don't have much bottleneck outside of ram (if you're doing things properly). If you use 64 of those for storage, that can be 100s of TB of ridiculously fast storage, and you still have another 64 left over for ridiculously fast networking.