Alberto (git.delete@this.git.it) on August 13, 2018 11:11 am wrote:
> Per Hesselgren (perhesselgren.delete@this.yahoo.se) on August 13, 2018 8:50 am wrote:
> > Threadripper on Anandtech
>
> Great power analysis kudos to Anandtech.
>
> This article gives an idea of the struggles of a many core SKU. Loved the prediction that the
> new and relatively weak upcoming fine nodes will are not able to compensate enough the rising
> amount of complexity and the growing power consumption in intercore and memory access trafic.
>
> Looks like the max core number per socket definitively has a limit and the multisocket
> solution has a bright future even if someone trust the contrary.
>
> My bet AMD 64 cores Epyc will be suboptimal, in fact for now they try the 48 number only to stay safe.

Your argument makes no sense. Why on earth would the power problem be reduced when crossing from one socket to another, rather than from one die to another across an interposer?
As long as we are demanding the same things (same level of performance, same degree of snooping) from cores in a single socket and cores across multiple sockets, the socket communication is strictly more expensive than the on-die or through-interposer communication.