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Re:Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster by jeffbee on Thursday August 07, 2025 @03:54PM (#44829553)
Yeah I don't get it either. To get marginally more resources than the 9950X you have to make a significant leap in price to a $1500+ CPU on a $1000 motherboard.
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Re:Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster by wpm on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:07AM (#44833300)
No, you get it.

This is pure market segmentation. If you need that little bit extra, you’re forced to compromise, or to open your wallet big time, and AMD is betting on people who “really” need that slightly extra oomph to pay.

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Re:Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster by toast0 on Friday August 08, 2025 @01:59AM (#44833924)
The premium is about getting more i/o. More memory channel, a lot more lanes. Maybe also a very high power limit.

If you need that in a single system, you gotta pay up. Lower tier SP6 processors are actually pretty reasonably priced, boards are still spendy though.

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Re:Benchmark Framework Desktop Mainboard and 4-node cluster by sliken on Saturday August 09, 2025 @02:00AM (#44844356)
Doubly so when a $650 Epyc motherboard and a $650 Epyc CPU gets you 3x the threadipper's bandwidth and 1.5 the thread ripper pro's bandwidth.

Seems like threadripper is too low volume to be price competitive with Epyc and there's a relatively price insensitive workstation market out there.

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