Allen
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Joined: Oct 1999
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Ohio USA
For high core count CPUs, what matters is performance in high thread count applications. AMD Threadripper seems like it will be competitive.
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AMD Threadripper Lineup Gets Preliminary Pricing and Performance Numbers – Offers 40% More Performance Per Dollar Than Intel Core-X In Cinebench R15
As expected, Intel does have an edge in terms of performance per core figures – but in Cinebench R15, the difference isn’t enough to justify the Intel premium..
The Threadripper and Whitehaven X399 platform .. will continue to upset the x86 paradigm .. Whether or not Threadripper is able to beat Intel offerings core-for-core or clock-for-clock is irrelevant – they will knock out the competition where it actually matters: Perf-Per-$...
