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by RKearney 2290 days ago
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.
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Power is also a high cost in a good data center, and Epyc also smokes Xeon for perf-per-watt.
As of Zen2, single core performance is sometimes better, sometimes worse than Intel, depending on the chips being compared and the workload.