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A comment on Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Geekbench 4. Parent comment

Re:Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Gee... by derefr on Monday September 02, 2019 @12:21PM (#20860042)
Nobody switches a big contract from one vendor to another because of a 2x ROI disparity. 5x is about the threshold where you start to feel like it’d be irresponsible to your shareholders to not switch, despite the switching costs.
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Re:Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Gee... by gumby on Monday September 02, 2019 @04:12PM (#20861483)
I don't know why your comment was downvoted. This kind of metric is typical for the enterprise (where cap ex is only part of the equation), and Tom's hardware specifically called out relevance to the enterprise:

> The Geekbench 4 benchmark holds little to no relevance in the enterprise world. Nevertheless, it gives us a small taste of how AMD's EPYC 7002-series can provide enterprises with more bang for their buck.

In short this comment is appropriate.

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