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| posted by Jean-Francois Panisset on July 11, 2017, 6:15 p.m. (2 days ago) | ||||||
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| Ars has details on the new Xeon pricing: http://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd-epyc-7000-cpu-battle-of-the-decade/7 First impressions: - nothing is affordable in the "Platinum" range, cheapest part is a 16 core 2.0GHz 8153 for $3K+ - in the "Gold" range, at around $2K there's the 14 core, 2.6GHz 140W 6132 for $2111 which kind of lines up with the 14 core, 2.6GHz 135W E5-2690v4 for $2090 Which seems a bit disappointing: for the last few Xeon generations the pricing seem to come out at "you get 2 more cores for the same price point", now it's "you get the same core count, same GHZ, higher power draw and slightly more expensive". Although the 6132 will TurboBoost to 3.7GHz for single core performance vs 3.5GHz for the E5-2690v4, but that's less useful for efficiently multi-threaded rendering applications. As an aside, "Platinum" / "Gold" / "Silver" / "Bronze" sound like options at the car wash or gym memberships. I wonder who decided those were good branding ideas. JF To unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribe |