AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chips A Run For It

Re:AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chip... by aidenn0 on Sunday February 19, 2017 @04:56AM (#13678975)

ECC RAM isn't that much more expensive despite being less common. It's a bigger premium to go from an i7 to Xeon than to equip the Xeon with ECC RAM. If ECC were manufactured in the volumes of non-ECC it would probably be almost exactly 12.5% more expensive (i.e. just the cost of the extra chip).

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Re:AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chip... by temac on Sunday February 19, 2017 @06:16AM (#13679181)

> It's a bigger premium to go from an i7 to Xeon than to equip the Xeon with ECC RAM.

Not exactly. The prices between comparable i7 to Xeon are nearly the same.

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Re:AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chip... by aidenn0 on Sunday February 19, 2017 @01:58PM (#13681248)

Wow, I just priced skylake Xeon's vs i7 and prices are very comparable (in some cases the Xeon is even cheaper). Current Xeon v. i7 was significantly different last year when I purchased.

I did check and it is still true that with laptops you always pay a premium for Xeon v Core on an equal performance basis (even within the same model).

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