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Re:Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Gee... by Buraksr on Monday September 02, 2019 @11:43AM (#20859777)
AMD has always had the problem of having weaker cpu's that were better per dollar. I agree they should have highlighted the 5x advantage, but for a long time people have regarded AMD as the value weaker option; this is what changed this gen and what they are trying to higlight. Finally AMD gets more performance for cheaper and is no longer just a better value in some applications
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Re:Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Gee... by stefan_ on Monday September 02, 2019 @12:34PM (#20860140)
Well, they weren't better per dollar once you factored in power consumption.
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Re:Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Gee... by philjohn on Monday September 02, 2019 @02:02PM (#20860775)
For bulldozer, maybe, but pre core uarch they were faster and more energy efficient.
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Re:Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Gee... by antisthenes on Monday September 02, 2019 @06:02PM (#20862060)
Phenom, Phenom II, Bulldozer & Piledriver, all had worse performance/power.

Basically all of their CPUs from 2007 until 2014, a full 7 years.

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Re:Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Gee... by philjohn on Thursday September 05, 2019 @04:20AM (#20884853)
Yes, as I said, pre Core uArch, which launched in 2006 for laptops and 2007 for desktops.

Prior to that Intel was on the dead-end NetBurst and Athlon 64 and derivatives were the better chip when it came to performance per watt and outright computational power.

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Re:Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Gee... by rodgerd on Monday September 02, 2019 @06:52PM (#20862293)
Are you factoring in the Spectre losses?
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Re:Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Gee... by nolok on Monday September 02, 2019 @11:58PM (#20863615)
Which also got majorly reversed now, intel uses way more power than amd for equivalent performances
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