Intel Xeon Scalable "Cascade Lake" Processors Launch - Initial Xeon Platinum 8280 Linux Benchmarks

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.