For a $4025 list price, you can purchase a 48 core 96 thread x86 CPU, the AMD EPYC 7552. That may not seem like an exciting statement at first, but consider this. The AMD EPYC 7552 was launched almost a year before this article is coming out. Intel, in comparison, launched the Intel Xeon Gold 6258R (benchmarks soon on STH) in 2020 at about the same price point. Intel has higher clock speeds, but it is a 28 core part. AMD has PCIe Gen4 and 8x DDR4-3200 lanes that, if you read our piece on The 2021 Intel Ice Pickle, Intel will not match until the end of 2020 with realistic volume shipments in Q1 2021.
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