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I have not met anyone who deployed the new AMD stuff at scale and is happy with the outcome. The new architecture shines on small codes like SPEC and then falls apart in large, branchy, pointer-chasing codes that everyone runs in production. I would not say AMD is “in a great place” with their current product. They are putting slight pressure on Intel on the very low end and filling some very specialized niches but that’s about it.

[llampx]

Is there no benchmark that measures the EPYC and Xeon chips on "large, branchy, pointer-chasing codes that everyone runs in production"? From everything I've seen, the Zen architecture is a win across the board.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

That's an interesting perspective, thanks. I'd be curious to see how AMD's Zen 2 next year will play though. They should have a big power/performance to price advantage over Intel unless they're forced to cut prices.

[evancox100]

Any public sources? Just curious

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I don't think anyone has an incentive to release findings because that will just sour their future work with AMD and counteract any pricing concessions they are getting for waving the AMD platform around under Intel's noses. Same for POWER, for what that's worth.