[Nifster]

AMD has always been trying to catch Intel

We’ll see how it goes

[Pox]

Competition is great for the consumer. It’s about time AMD got back into this battle.

[minnesota_bound]

AMD reveals their earnings next Tuesday.
Inexpensive stock. Has not done much the past 7 months.
In 2016 it went from about $2 to $15 in 1 year.

[Seruzawa]

I use AMDs exclusively in desktops. Never had any performance issues.

[Yossarian]

I need to build an engineering workstation / compute server ASAP, hence the recently renewed battle between AMD and Intel interests me greatly. In particular, I’m looking at the Intel i9x-7900 vs. the (soon to release) AMD Ryzen Threadripper (12 core or 16 core), or in a less-likely case, the latest Intel Xeon vs. AMD Epyc.

The Intel i9X has better instructions-per-cycle (IPC) - and the fact that it is available NOW - going for it. However, it has no support for ECC RAM, and it is made with a cheaper, less reliable heat extraction system (Thermal paste vs. soldering). It is more expensive, too, but within a few hundred dollars, I’m willing to overlook that.

Threadripper has ECC support and will use soldering, making for better heat extraction from the device when under full load. However, has lower IPC than the i9X, and it isn’t available NOW.

I’m going to be driving this server HARD when I need to, and since the results will be going into chip designs, the results had better NOT BE CORRUPTED. That’s why I’m going to try to wait a few months for the Threadripper systems to become available.

Competition is a great thing!

[MarkL]

Sometime around 2010, my company bought a number of HP Proliant servers with Opterons, and when we tried running Windows SQL server on them, we had nothing but problems. We wound up using those servers for Linux and ESXi hosts, and they were just fine. We never did figure out what the problem was, but those were the last AMD processor servers we ever bought.

Mark