Re:The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer?
by michael_h on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:21AM
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It depends on what you're doing and which Xeon you get. If you're doing number crunching, then it will definitely be worth it. I have some Xeon's with 20MB cache that cut my processing time by ~40%, so they paid for themselves the first time I ran something on them.
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Re:The Intel Xeon E7-8800 v3 Review: The POWER8 Killer?
by danieldk on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @10:10AM
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If you're doing number crunching, then it will definitely be worth it.
Depends on the kind of number crunching. If you are doing expensive matrix computations, a high-end GTX CPU or a Tesla stream processor may buy you much more for the same price.
Also, if the choice is between cache size and architecture, a new architecture may bring more. E.g. my Core i7 MacBook royally beats some of our Xeon machines with 25MB cache, by virtue of having AVX with 256 bit wide registers for SIMD.
Of course, if you can have it all, take it all :).