[The Exiled]

Ja sam svoj BIOS/UEFI zadnji put vidjel u 11. mjesecu 2017. Nego, kaj zapravo muči veliki Intel...

The AMD EPYC 7702P is simply a game-changing part. It is the processor that the current Intel Xeon generation has no direct answer to. With this 64-core part, AMD is delivering more cores than a dual-socket Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 system. AMD has PCIe Gen4, while Intel has PCIe Gen3. AMD has 128x PCIe lanes while Intel has only 96x PCIe lanes with two CPUs. All of this and AMD’s list price is $4425, or less than a single 24-core Intel Xeon Platinum 8260. Therein lies the opportunity for AMD. It has delivered (more than) Intel’s dual-socket performance in a single socket. Whereas with the first-generation EPYC, Intel was saying that the multi-NUMA node architecture to reach a given core count was not good, the tables have turned. Now Intel needs multiple NUMA nodes for a core count, and potentially worse. Intel may need more systems to match the AMD EPYC 7702P’s capacity for cores and PCIe bandwidth. At some point, Intel will get competitive, but in this generation, having an AMD EPYC 7702P is a clear advantage.

Intel does have three primary features that AMD does not have a direct answer to. If you need AVX-512, DL Boost (VNNI), or Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory, and they are must-have features, Intel is the way to go.

AMD is delivering a part designed to compete with what Intel will announce in 2020, and win.

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