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EPYC based HP server with SPEC results released.
The 32 core EPYC seems pretty much on par with the 28 core Intel highend Xeon. It is a bit faster in floating point and a bit slower in integer, so basically a wash. Price is a lot different though, whereas the Xeon sells at 10k$, the EPYC sells at less than 5k$. It would be interesting to know the production costs since AMD will have presumably significantly better yields with its 4 die solution and the overall die area is pretty similar for the two cores.

Performance per watt will be crucial as is total cost of ownership, before datacenters will switch in larger numbers. Intel will go down in price before that happens, for sure. We'll see how much of their cash cows they are willing to sacrifice. Intel needs a lot of money for the (already very late) transition to 10nm.