Re: workstation buying advice
+1 for AMD
Nothing new below this line.
On Wednesday, July 15, 2020 08:48:41 AM Dan Ritter wrote:
> For best price/performance for large parallel workloads, you may
> be better off with an AMD ThreadRipper or EPYC system.
>
> The Intel CPU has a list price of $1800 US.
>
> An AMD TR4 2990WX is 32 cores / 64 threads at 3 GHz, and has a
> list price of $1200 US. It performs better and costs
> significantly less.
>
> An AMD TR4 3970X is 32c / 64 t at 3.7 GHz, matches the list
> price of the Intel and will perform much, much better.
>
> Either of them will need a TR4 motherboard, and Supermicro
> currently doesn't offer those. All of them should work well with
> Debian.
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