Intel Xeon Platinum 8490H "Sapphire Rapids" Performance Benchmarks

[sophisticles]

So what you're saying is that anyone who wants a general purpose CPU should just buy AMD?

I don't think there is anyone with even a modicum of intellectual honesty that would argue against the fact that at the moment AMD offers the more compelling options if one is interested in running highly threaded applications on general purpose processors.

The point is that these specific processors are not aimed at that demographic, they are aimed at those considering buying a Z15/16 or upgrading from a Z14/15 to a Z16.

These servers are 40 grand each, and each processor has 60C/120T and 16 accelerators; that's 120C/240T and 32 accelerators per server.

Ten of these servers in a rack would cost 400 grand and feature 1200C/2400T and 320 accelerators, which compares very favorably with what is found in a 500 grand Z15.

No one is buying these things to compile code or run blender or run CAD.

That's what makes this review, and the comments regarding AMD superior overall showing, so laughable.

[Paradigm Shifter]

These servers are 40 grand each, and each processor has 60C/120T and 16 accelerators; that's 120C/240T and 32 accelerators per server.

I think that's a rather conservative price estimate. Perhaps with no storage or very little RAM a dual-60C box would be 40,000. With a reasonable quantity of RAM-per-core, I would image it would be double that. I recently tripled the price of the Intel server I specced up by half-filling its maximum memory capacity. In the end we went with Epyc because it was cheaper, no slower and would arrive faster (and most of what we do is GPU based, so the CPUs are just there to keep the GPUs fed).

If you have a program which can use these new AMX extensions, Sapphire Rapids is a good buy. But in that scenario, it's the only buy, so there we are.