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It's certainly interesting to watch the performance between the EPYC 7601 2P and Xeon Platinum 8280 processors.
The time needed to perform a context switch is drastically lower now compared to the Xeon Gold -- and in line with the AMD EPYC performance -- thanks to the hardware-based side-channel mitigations.