Competition sure is awesome. I am still reading up on all the great content that STH has thrown out and still going through the Anandtech article with the EPYC benchmarks vs. the new Skylake-xeons but a blurb in that article hit home at least for my work use-case: EPYC is best suited for high density VMs but not data synchronization tasks as one would see in a Database context which sucks since as a DBA I'd be cool to have a reason to get some EPYC systems in house.
Re the title of this thread: the omni-path 100Gbps networking per socket (so four sockets means a 400GBPs connection) just struck me as part of a multi-punch combo from Intel where AMD just tweaked Zen cores and threw 4 of them on silicon. Still they have compelling hardware, both sides do.
Re the title of this thread: the omni-path 100Gbps networking per socket (so four sockets means a 400GBPs connection) just struck me as part of a multi-punch combo from Intel where AMD just tweaked Zen cores and threw 4 of them on silicon. Still they have compelling hardware, both sides do.