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7nm AMD EPYC "Rome" CPU W/ 64C/128T to Cost $8K (56 Core Intel Xeon: $25K-50K)

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday June 23 2019, @06:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the when-in-rome... dept.

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7nm AMD EPYC "Rome" CPU w/ 64C/128T to Cost $8K (56 Core Intel Xeon: $25K-50K)

Yesterday, we shared the core and thread counts of AMD's Zen 2 based Epyc lineup, with the lowest-end chip going as low as 8 cores while the top-end 7742 boasting 64 and double the threads. Today, the prices of these server parts have also surfaced, and it seems like they are going to be quite a bit cheaper than the competing Intel Xeon Platinum processors.

The top-end Epyc 7742 with a TDP of 225W (128 threads @ 3.4GHz) is said to sell for a bit less than $8K, while the lower clocked 7702 and 7702P (single-socket) are going to cost $7,215 and $4,955 (just) respectively. That's quite impressive, you're getting 64 Zen 2 cores for just $5,000, while on the other hand Intel's 28-core Xeon Platinum 8280 costs a whopping $18K and is half as powerful.

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  • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Sunday June 23 2019, @08:55PM (3 children)

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 23 2019, @08:55PM (#859144)
    These 64c/128t CPUs are going to look mighty appealing for hypervisors, and if you want to run Windows on those hypervisors holy hell that's going to be expensive. Almost $25K per CPU for Datacenter. Good news is, add a ton of RAM to each box and you could do some serious data center consolidation.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @09:30PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @09:30PM (#859160)

    4 TB ram per CPU, so ~30 gb per thread.

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @10:02PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 23 2019, @10:02PM (#859170)

    Or you could switch to Linux... 64c/128t is just enough for what Poettering has in mind for systemd.