AMD EPYC 7773X "Milan-X" Performance Continues To Impress With Tremendous Opportunity For Large-Cache Server CPUs

The EPYC 7773X launched with a price of $8800 USD, a few months after launch from US retailers I am seeing it listed for around $9500 USD while some more questionable Chinese-based listings show it as low as $6,299 USD. In any event this pricing remains very competitive with Internet listings for the EPYC 7763 right now putting that part at $8600~8700 USD. So even for workloads without large leads over the 7763, the price difference is small.

On a performance-per-Watt basis the EPYC 7773X is still proving to be very competitive.

Xeon Platinum 8380 pricing has come down to as low as $8775 USD at some retailers while $11~13k at other Internet retailers. But even if priced the same as the EPYC 7773X, it's usually trailing this high L3 cache part in most real-world benchmarks.

The EPYC 7773X really shines for technical computing workloads like CFD, finite solvers, etc.

The EPYC 7773X also performs very well for the WRF weather forecasting benchmark and provides significant time-savings over the EPYC 7763. Its performance is much better than the Xeon Platinum 8380 while also drawing less power.