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I think this is meant to be read as, "over the past decade, you haven't been able to wait a year and buy a new CPU to solve your vertical scalability issues.",
by foota 2y ago
I think this is meant to be read as, "over the past decade, you haven't been able to wait a year and buy a new CPU to solve your vertical scalability issues.", not necessarily to claim that there hasn't been significant growth when compared over the entire window.
- hinkley 2y agom4, m5, and m6 had a bit of oomph per dollar that was nice to have. Then Amazon got greedy and priced the 7's a little more dearly, and it turns out depending on your workload the math is wrong, particularly for the c6i and c7i versus the m-series, where I think their ratios got a bit wonky. Their benchmarks were not reflective of the real world applications I had to deploy the way they had been in previous generations. I feel like this is a case of them believing their own PR to everyone's detriment. They're going to have to lower their prices on both the Intel and AMD versions by at least 5% before it even became price competitive to upgrade. Even if you ignored the rounding errors of needing for instance X.3 machines to keep the same response curve, which played out for us and greatly compounded my indifference for the new machines. There's a good chance that team will skip straight from m6 to m8 when they are available since as far as I'm aware they rarely change their prices.