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Re:High End CPUs – Intel vs. AMD by meanonme on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:44AM (#14986866)
Pipeline depth, cache sizes and types, number of execution units, memory links and bandwidth and on and on.

Absent are measurements for enterprise CPUs like the Xeon Platinum 8180M (street price about $13,000 USD) which trounces the fastest offering from AMD before even getting out of bed. [0]

Note 0: For multi-threaded uses. For single-threaded use-cases, the Xeon Gold 6144 has the potential to be faster:

- Gold 6144 vs. Platinum 8180M

- Cores: 8 vs. 28

- Turbo: 4.2 GHz vs. 3.8 GHz

- L2: 8x1 MiB vs. 28x1 MiB

- L3: 24.75 MiB vs. 38.5 MiB

It's really a shame that AMD isn't as comprehensively competitive as it could be in enterprise, because Intel could get somewhat lazier/pricier in some areas without effective competition.

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Re:High End CPUs – Intel vs. AMD by nrki on Friday August 11, 2017 @06:20AM (#14988143)
- Are you really comparing a $1000 CPU to a $13,000 CPU?

- Threadripper is not Enterprise. Are you not aware of Epyc?

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Re:High End CPUs – Intel vs. AMD by icc97 on Friday August 11, 2017 @07:37AM (#14988586)
From what I can tell he's disappointed that AMD don't offer a $13,000 CPU that competes with Intel.

Epyc falls short of the Xeon Platinum 8180 [0]

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/6ip3oi/xeon_platinum...

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