[rmnoon]

Out of curiosity have you read benchmarks recently on Rome? Per-core performance is quite competitive now (unlike in the recent past).

[RKearney]

No but I'll certainly pass the word along. I handle the network and wasn't directly responsible for evaluating AMD. I just heard the reasons why it didn't work and saw the not-so-impressive benchmarks when looking at single core performance. This was 2-3 years ago.

[philjohn]

Power is also a high cost in a good data center, and Epyc also smokes Xeon for perf-per-watt.

[gameswithgo]

As of Zen2, single core performance is sometimes better, sometimes worse than Intel, depending on the chips being compared and the workload.

[rdybjhbmyuk]

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html