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The electrical consumption of a core increases exponentially with the increase of its clock rate. And, because of this, AMD has a big advantage against Intel: it's enough for AMD to lower the clock of its EPYC processors that it can launch EPYC CPUs with many x86 cores (64/96/128 cores) that, even thus, EPYC CPUs will still have a very acceptable performance and electrical consumption.Well in the server market IPC does not really matter as much as efficiency and Intel really can't compete in general purpose compute.
Intel would have to lower the clock rate of its CPUs a lot to be able to launch CPUs with 96 or 128 cores with an acceptable electrical consumption (and, thus, Intel CPUs would have very low performance in relation to EPYC).
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