Re:AMD Prepares 32-Core Naples CPUs for 1P and 2P Servers: C...
by sliken on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @01:43AM
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They will likely drop the clock. I don't think the market cares at all about how much a CPU takes. If a 1U box has competitive performance AND better performance/watt then it's attractive. It if has worse performance/watt than it's not.
AMD might well steal some of the dual socket market with a dual socket, and maybe some of the quad socket market with dual sockets.
Considering that the current ryzen at $500 is relatively competitive with the $1,000 intel (basically a relabled Xeon with 4 memory busses in the LGA2011 server socket) a quad module (32 core/64 thread) in a socket sounds pretty good. Even if it's more watts than the intel.
AMD might well steal some of the dual socket market with a dual socket, and maybe some of the quad socket market with dual sockets.
Considering that the current ryzen at $500 is relatively competitive with the $1,000 intel (basically a relabled Xeon with 4 memory busses in the LGA2011 server socket) a quad module (32 core/64 thread) in a socket sounds pretty good. Even if it's more watts than the intel.