Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...

Anton Ertl <anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> schrieb:

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:

Definitely - if you have 512 GB DDR5 memory in your workstation, the
cost of the CPU itself is a relatively small fraction.

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Reality check:
EUR
2400 =8*300 8*64GB MTC40F2046S1RC48BA1R Micron RDIMM 64GB, DDR5-4800
9300 AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96C boxed
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The Intel side is a little cheaper, but also offers fewer cores:
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4100 Intel Xeon w9-3475X, 36C boxed
6800 Intel Xeon w9-3495X, 56C tray
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In any case, all three CPUs are significantly more expensive than
512GB of RAM.

Let's just say those prices are not representative of what I have
in my workstation.  First, the CPUs are different, and second,
the deals that a large corporation gets on hardware can be quite
surprising to somebody who is not familiar with them.