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Re:Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are... by arantius on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @11:07AM (#20810355)
What I see there is that the EPYC 7601 (first graph, second from the bottom) is much faster than the Xeon 6138 -- it's only slower than /two/ Xeons ("the much more expensive dual Xeon Gold 6138 configuration"). The 32-core EPYC scores 30% more than the 20-core Xeon.
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Re:Zen 2 Missives – AMD now delivering efficiencies that are... by dragontamer on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @02:22PM (#20812867)
There's a lot of different benchmarks there.

Look at PostgreSQL, where the split-L3 cache hampers the EPYC 7601's design.

As I stated earlier: in many workloads, the split-cache of EPYC seems to be a benfit. But in DATABASES, which is one major workload for any modern business, EPYC loses to a much weaker system.

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