De-lided Threadripper - It's not what you think

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To know what to test, one needs to see what Intel says this particular CPU type is good at.

Claims:

Higher IPC than any other...

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I don't come to Phoronix to just learn about CPU/GPU behavior. I come here to learn Linux. Reading Phoronix has helped me learn more about Linux than...

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In the "old days", samples were sent to many of the technology publishing groups, like Byte, Penwell, IDG and ZD and they were shared in many...

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The Windows bench result chart is just above the Linux ones at the same link. Indulge yourself and make the article useful....

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Thanks for the link.

About what I expected as it mimics Ryzen behaviors (except the segmentation stuff).

Strong on threaded...

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Michael has it right here. It's more than just the raw compute in mining, its also the cost to mine. (power, cost to acquire, etc.)

With...

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IBM offers POWER9 in two flavors: Scale-Out (SO) and Scale-Up (SU). The Scale-Out variations are design for traditional datacenter clusters utilizing...

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I see what you mean now. I logged into the portal with my account and it takes you in a circular route in and out of 2 websites. I finally landed in...

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OpenPOWER released the spec documentation (POWER ISA v3.0B) on their site back in March.

https://openpowerfoundation.org/?resource_lib...

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Love it when "my answer is better than your answer" flares up.

Time for someone to print up tshirts that say "I was there...

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I love these tests. I like seeing how products scale across cores. The loss of performance as some threads exceeded 10 were the most interesting.

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Publishing benchmarking results of MS SQL without Microsoft's explicit consent is a violation of the EULA.

SQL Server 2017 for Linux is...

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Recent story on the de-liding of the AMD Threadripper.

It's not what you would expect. Most people thought, "oh, its a Ryzen 3 x 4"....

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While many consider the lack of real competition a driver for slow technical progress from Intel, but many in the industry feel that Intel purposefully...

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There were several content delivery firms waiting for more secure replacements on HTML5. Several firms have been working together to provide that (like...