On 07/11/2017 1:48 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 13:29:19 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
On 07/11/2017 12:58 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 11:31:03 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:
I am quite surprised that Intel even created i9 actually, it just
wasn't required.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper:
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
I do not trust that benchmark.
Well, this is another one with a comparison of two products with similar
price:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-7900X-vs-AMD-Ryzen-TR-1950X/3936vs3932
I think the Xeons might be for overcommited server situations. Larger
caches and many threads. Sometimes people are more interested in
responsiveness (prevent starvation) and not necessarily max speed. So if
you do a lot of I/O system calls you might want the ability to run many
threads at the same time and focus less on number crunching, perhaps?
That sounds an awful like the average user too ;)
But after looking at those numbers, I have a strange feeling that
Intel is pushing those i9's past 'safe' limits.
I think they just turn off cores that does not work and put those chips
into the lower end, and the high end is very expensive at $2000 (so
maybe low yield or just greed :-)…
The way I think of it is that Xeon's get all the newest and greatest
features, with them slowly trickling down to the i-series. Invest in the
Xeon production line one generation and in next use it for i7's ext.
Basically R&D cost go all on the Xeon's and then eventually once its
paid off it goes straight to the consumers.
But i9 is looking like its a completely different beast to the rest of
the i-series with Intel actively adding new unique features to it. Quite
scary that this doesn't sound like a good move especially when those
features could very well make those cpu's last not very long.
Looks like they are changing tactic after the last 10 years or so. I do
wonder if you're on the right track and turning a Xeon into an i9 is
just a firmware upgrade...
