AMD Reveals EPYC Datacenter Processor Pricing

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AMD has unveiled the pricing scheme for its latest EPYC line of datacenter processors. In a series of graphs and tables at it's EPYC launch presentation, it outlined a comprehensive platform that it claims beats Intel on a performance per dollar basis across the entire 64 thread spectrum. What is known up to now in regards to pricing can be summarized in this nice table we have made for you below:




Intel for its part has responded in kind, vowing that its Xeon chips will continue to "best all competitors." They reference their Xeon Scalable line as a potential answer to AMD's EPYC lineup, and remind their audience that while they have provided "20+ years of uninterrupted data center innovations," their competitor AMD can hardly claim the same.

Still, if AMD's numbers are anything to go by, Xeon Scalable has a significant uphill battle in store for it from the price/performance metric.

The high points of AMD's presentation on EPYC's price-to-performance competitiveness can be viewed below:



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[Melvis]

Are any of these CPU's compatible on the threadripper platform? or is this for a totally different socket again?

 

[Frick]

Are any of these CPU's compatible on the threadripper platform? or is this for a totally different socket again?

New socket. It is not a bad thing, servers and desktops are different.

 

[TheGuruStud]

Are any of these CPU's compatible on the threadripper platform? or is this for a totally different socket again?

Different. MB needs wired for 8 ch ram and all those pci-e lanes.

Enterprise is never the same.

 

[Melvis]

New socket. It is not a bad thing, servers and desktops are different.

Well considering Threadripper is basically Server just transformed into desktop lol but fair enough

 

[Brusfantomet]

Well considering Threadripper is basically Server just transformed into desktop lol but fair enough

well, no. Threadripper is 2x summit ridge, EPYC is 4x summit ridge and Ryzen is 1x summit ridge.

 

[Melvis]

well, no. Threadripper is 2x summit ridge, EPYC is 4x summit ridge and Ryzen is 1x summit ridge.

Well if you think servers havent had up to 16cores in the past few yrs then I dont know where you have been lol Opteron 32 Core anyone?

 

[Kaotik]

Those 2P-prices are actually per 2 processors, not per processor.
http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/amd-epyc-datacenter-2017jun20.aspx states single Epyc 7601 costs $2100

 

[VSG]

Those 2P-prices are actually per 2 processors, not per processor.
http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/amd-epyc-datacenter-2017jun20.aspx states single Epyc 7601 costs $2100

AMD did a poor job clarifying that in person yesterday, everyone thought those were single CPU prices. Thanks for the link, we will update it to reflect this.

 

[Solaris17]

Thats very competitive pricing in the server world. Now hopefully the AMD server boards are worth a damn.

 

[HopelesslyFaithful]

this has potential to really displace intel in server industry. Lets hope we need some good changes

 

[Brusfantomet]

Well if you think servers havent had up to 16cores in the past few yrs then I dont know where you have been lol Opteron 32 Core anyone?

32 cores, which one of the summit ridge based AMD offerings has that? i know, the server one named EPYC. Threadripper is the HEDT/workstation iteration.

Of course nobody is going to stop you running a server OS on them (my personal server runs on a A8-5600K), but that is not the intended purpose of the chip and that will be reflected in the motherboards.

 

[Melvis]

32 cores, which one of the summit ridge based AMD offerings has that? i know, the server one named EPYC. Threadripper is the HEDT/workstation iteration.

Of course nobody is going to stop you running a server OS on them (my personal server runs on a A8-5600K), but that is not the intended purpose of the chip and that will be reflected in the motherboards.

What? I think your getting confused here, read back to the first thread you commented on and think about it lol

Im talking about pure core count, not what its named etc

 

[Brusfantomet]

What? I think your getting confused here, read back to the first thread you commented on and think about it lol

Im talking about pure core count, not what its named etc

And that is where you are wrong, since you are calming that a 16 core thread ripper is a server chip, when the actual fact is that both Treadripper and EPYC use the consumer cores in a x2 or x4 configuration.
core count is not the only thing that makes a computer a server, ECC and management features is also important, while fancy RGB and overclocking is completely irrelevant.

Treadripper CPU is a dual socket consumer solution in one socket, EPYC is a quad consumer socket with some extra crypto and management features in one socket.

so the statement

Well considering Threadripper is basically Server just transformed into desktop lol but fair enough

is wrong.

 

[Melvis]

And that is where you are wrong, since you are calming that a 16 core thread ripper is a server chip, when the actual fact is that both Treadripper and EPYC use the consumer cores in a x2 or x4 configuration.
core count is not the only thing that makes a computer a server, ECC and management features is also important, while fancy RGB and overclocking is completely irrelevant.

Treadripper CPU is a dual socket consumer solution in one socket, EPYC is a quad consumer socket with some extra crypto and management features in one socket.

so the statement

is wrong.

So who is wrong now? maybe you want to redo your statement on this since all the information is out now and I dont think I have to say anything to prove how right I was and how wrong you where