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Re:The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD (2020) by aidenn0 on Friday March 19, 2021 @06:43PM (#26518908)
And a typical TR workstation is 2x the price of an "average desktop" so maybe a 4x multiplier?
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Re:The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD (2020) by greggyb on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:32AM (#26523482)
You could price out a desktop for your own comparison. I don't think it's fair to compare something explicitly designed to be a workstation to a desktop-class machine.
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Re:The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD (2020) by aidenn0 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @06:18PM (#26526461)
It's both fair and not; if you want a desktop, the cheapest POWER desktop is 3k, and at 4 cores it's arguably not competing against TR. Yes it's IO throughput will put a desktop class part to shame, but you can't go any cheaper.
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Re:The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD (2020) by greggyb on Monday March 22, 2021 @10:29AM (#26541320)
Agreed. There isn't really a viable desktop-class offering from Raptor. This is a shame.

For those who have need for the workstation-ish features Raptor offers in its Talos line, the premium isn't too great over a roughly equivalent x86 workstation-class machine.

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