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I think that the current thread sentiment (downvoting and accusations of lying elsewhere), does not make it appealing to provide further details.


No, creating a throwaway account and making a superfluous claim creates the thread sentiment.

There might be valid comparisons for specific Epyc generations and their Xeon counterparts. But processors are a bit like car engines. Power and torque numbers doesn't tell the whole story.

Datacenter processors are optimized for different scenarios. Use the wrong processor for the wrong job, and you get abysmal performance. We have an AMD system which won't win any speed records, but that thing has enormous number of memory channels and PCIe lanes, so it's basically a semi with an extra long trailer.

Fittingly, that processor lives in a storage cluster and delivers tremendous amount of I/O both in IOPS and throughput. Same processor would look silly in a compute cluster, though.


>No, creating a throwaway account and making a superfluous claim creates the thread sentiment.

Maybe this is Intel's new marketing strategy. Astroturfing has been around for decades now; Microsoft was doing it in the early 2000s.


Very convenient.

Or you could back up your claim with actual data.


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