<i>Now that AMD has closed the gap, and passed Intel’s per core performance in the 16-core CPU market, it has a platform with more RAM capacity and more PCIe lanes along with more performance than the Intel Xeon Gold 6142M, at around a quarter of the price.</i><p>What does Intel have so far up its sleeve that AMD has to virtually give away its chips like this?
not only amd is providing a good performance, value and features(omg, so many pci lanes), amd can actually deliver their chips without the wait.<p>the lead time for intel desktop models(i7-9700) is months. i know that enterprise vendors are also experiencing intel cpu shortages and long wait times. Some discussion <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9ea8y2/intel_cant_supply_14nm_xeons_hpe_directly/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9ea8y2/intel_cant...</a>
I can't wait for DO to offer EPYC, or hopefully Zen 2 as they are very close to launch. I need more CPU Core but instead most of the Cloud Vendor offer me 1 Core ( Actually 1 Thread ) and 2GB Memory. I would much rather see a 1:1 Core and Memory Config.
Great point about core frequency being important for per-core licensing.<p>I wonder if any software with per-core licensing has tried to take a possibly 'fairer' approach, for example by summing the frequency of all cores? E.g. 4x cores at 2GHz is 8GHz?<p>It's not that straightforward a comparison, I know, just wondering if anyone has tried something different here.
So what happened to intel that they’re now no longer way ahead in both performance and manufacturing technology? They’re being squeezed from all sides, and don’t seem to be pulling ahead...
If AMD came out with a platform with decent power/battery/performance and ECC memory available in a laptop it would go to the front of my next purchase list.
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