[touisteur]

I have had great success with the 'low-core / high-frequency' line-up in every step of the Zen+EPYC architectures.

They always have these (thanks to CCX and chiplets) SKUs and for latency-sensitive applications (or single-core non-parrallelized workloads), the high-frequency ones are amazing. You don't get the actual frequency/perf ratio, but they're relatively cheap (compared to the Intel SKUs with similar cores/freq) and damned reliable.

[redroyal]

Frequency optimized parts were created to sidestep software licensing based on core count. Often w/ higher cache. Like Milan-X