Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800

[Radtraveller]

~$37000 for 2P xeon ($17,600-$20,000 each)
~$11000 for 2p 9654 ($5500 each on Amazon)

get 2 AMD servers for the price of one xeon2p server. Maybe even 2 96542p servers and a Workstation ...

[varikonniemi]

I don't think there's any question that Intel has the superior technology overall.

But a 17+ thousand dollar price tag for a CPU is eye watering.

This is the reason AMD has been able to claw market share away from Intel, and one of the main reasons why Intel has taken such a huge hit to it's share price.

AMD has been competing for years on what I refer to as the American muscle car approach to performance, big engines, relatively little sophistication, just a big set of stones.

Or if you prefer, the all you can eat approach to dining, let people stuff their faces at a reasonable price.

Intel meanwhile has been trying to cater to a more upscale, more sophisticated crowd, at premium prices.

We can see which approach the market seems to embrace more.

What I would like to see if Intel fuse both approaches and start offering processors at lower price points that feature E-cores only, and lots of them, onboard ram and dedicated accelerators, on all it's processors, from the lowly entry level offerings to the big guns.

if AMD offers an 12C/24T Zen 6 for $500 then Intel should offer a 40 E-Core processor and 20 gb of on die ram.

Basically offer such a compelling alternative that even if the consumer can't use it they want it.

AMD has been wiping the floor with intel for a long time, and intel has superior tehnology just because they manage to beat the outgoing generation of hardware? Keep in mind intel is competing against a processor here that was released 15 months ago.

[uxmkt]

So many processors which are not very different ...
Why so many ?

Maximum salvaging of partially-defect manufacturing output.

[sophisticles]

I don't think there's any question that Intel has the superior technology overall.

But a 17+ thousand dollar price tag for a CPU is eye watering.

This is the reason AMD has been able to claw market share away from Intel, and one of the main reasons why Intel has taken such a huge hit to it's share price.

AMD has been competing for years on what I refer to as the American muscle car approach to performance, big engines, relatively little sophistication, just a big set of stones.

Or if you prefer, the all you can eat approach to dining, let people stuff their faces at a reasonable price.

Intel meanwhile has been trying to cater to a more upscale, more sophisticated crowd, at premium prices.

We can see which approach the market seems to embrace more.

What I would like to see if Intel fuse both approaches and start offering processors at lower price points that feature E-cores only, and lots of them, onboard ram and dedicated accelerators, on all it's processors, from the lowly entry level offerings to the big guns.

if AMD offers an 12C/24T Zen 6 for $500 then Intel should offer a 40 E-Core processor and 20 gb of on die ram.

Basically offer such a compelling alternative that even if the consumer can't use it they want it.

[Eric a un avis]

Do not confuse with Motorola 6809P. Not exactly the same!

[Phoronos]

So many processors which are not very different ...
Why so many ?

[chuckula]

Thanks for the review and it's interesting to see that even your server-centric workloads still have plenty of cases where scaling to two sockets isn't buying you a whole lot of extra performance.

Of course, many real servers are running multiple workloads simultaneously so it evens out, but I'd be interested in the benefits & drawbacks of single socket vs multi socket servers for different use cases.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Xeon 6980P 1S Performance With DDR5-6400/MRDIMM-8800

With the Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids benchmarking at Phoronix the past few weeks it's been in a dual socket (2S / 2P) configuration. For those curious about the Intel Xeon 6980P 128-core server performance for a single socket (1S) configuration, here are those complementary results out today and for both DDR5-6400 and MRDIMM-8800 memory configurations. Thus a well-rounded look at the single Xeon 6980P performance compared to other single and dual socket Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC server processors.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-6980p