Epyc 7302P vs Xeon W-3223 Workstation Build
I'm looking to build a new Windows 10 workstation for Photoshop and related tasks. After a couple of years, this workstation will eventually transition over to replace the internals in my FreeNAS server, so IPMI and ECC ram are important.
I'm looking at these two options: an Epyc 7002 or Xeon W-3200 - both are within about $150 total build cost of each other in price, which is a wash.
(a) Epyc 7302P (16C/32T; 3.0/3.3GHz boost; 128MB L3; 8 Channel DDR4; 155w) + Supermicro H11SSL-NC + 128GB DDR4 3200 RDIMM ECC (4x 32GB RDIMMs)
(b) Xeon W-3223 (8C/16T; 3.5/4.0GHz boost; 16.5MB L3; 6 Channel DDR4; 160w) + Supermicro X11SPH-NCTF + 128GB DDR4 2666 RDIMM ECC (4x 32GB RDIMMs)
Irritants:
AMD. Lower base speed and lower boost speed, which may make single-thread and non-optimized multi-thread applications run slower overall. However, the massive 128MB L3 cache and faster DDR4 may offset some of the clock speed concerns. No frequency-optimized CPU parts (yet).
Intel. The $750 W-3223 is artificially neutered with 2666 DDR4. One has to jump up to the 12C/24T (3.3/4.4GHz boost) W-3235 @ $1,400 to get 2933 DDR4. Less PCI-E expandability - after adding a double slot GPU, the Supermicro Xeon board would only have 2 remaining PCI-E 3.0 x8 slots remaining.
I'm looking to build a new Windows 10 workstation for Photoshop and related tasks. After a couple of years, this workstation will eventually transition over to replace the internals in my FreeNAS server, so IPMI and ECC ram are important.
I'm looking at these two options: an Epyc 7002 or Xeon W-3200 - both are within about $150 total build cost of each other in price, which is a wash.
(a) Epyc 7302P (16C/32T; 3.0/3.3GHz boost; 128MB L3; 8 Channel DDR4; 155w) + Supermicro H11SSL-NC + 128GB DDR4 3200 RDIMM ECC (4x 32GB RDIMMs)
(b) Xeon W-3223 (8C/16T; 3.5/4.0GHz boost; 16.5MB L3; 6 Channel DDR4; 160w) + Supermicro X11SPH-NCTF + 128GB DDR4 2666 RDIMM ECC (4x 32GB RDIMMs)
Irritants:
AMD. Lower base speed and lower boost speed, which may make single-thread and non-optimized multi-thread applications run slower overall. However, the massive 128MB L3 cache and faster DDR4 may offset some of the clock speed concerns. No frequency-optimized CPU parts (yet).
Intel. The $750 W-3223 is artificially neutered with 2666 DDR4. One has to jump up to the 12C/24T (3.3/4.4GHz boost) W-3235 @ $1,400 to get 2933 DDR4. Less PCI-E expandability - after adding a double slot GPU, the Supermicro Xeon board would only have 2 remaining PCI-E 3.0 x8 slots remaining.
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