AMD EPYC “Rome” Server Processors to Feature 8 to 64 Cores

Re:AMD EPYC “Rome” Server Processors to Feature 8 to 64 Cores by kllrnohj on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:17PM (#20234997)

Rome is Zen 2. You have absolutely no clue whatsoever how it performs. It may still have the weaknesses of Zen 1, but it very well might not. AMD made a bunch of changes, including a complete overhaul of the memory system (no more NUMA).

We'll know for sure when the product is actually out and we have independent benchmarks, but at this point you're just making things up and stating them as facts.

That aside Epyc was already ahead on real high-end workloads like povray or NAMD ( http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/namd/ ). Epyc also puts up top numbers on compilation performance and OpenSSL. So it already isn't as black & white as you're pretending anyway. MySQL/DMBS is not the only server workload that exists, even though it may be the only workload you specifically care about.

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Re:AMD EPYC “Rome” Server Processors to Feature 8 to 64 Cores by kllrnohj on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:50PM (#20235354)

Don’t assume everyone suffers from the same ignorance that you suffer. The buyers in a position to get early samples of Rome are not paying retail prices on Intel.

And those players have already announced AMD is being added to their offerings: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/amd/

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