By: Adrian (a.delete@this.acm.org), August 10, 2019 10:43 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
me (me.delete@this.me.com) on August 10, 2019 7:36 am wrote:
> Intel's Xeon prices are so fake it hurts. Typical customers are paying at least half of list, and
> likely much more than that now. I wouldn't be surprised if Intel starts doing 2for1 deals too.
Intel's Xeon prices may be fake for big spender companies, but they are the actual prices that I and any other individual must pay at retail shops.
That means that the high-core-count Intel CPUs are as good as non-existent for individual buyers or small companies, because it is much cheaper to buy a larger number of servers with low-core-count CPUs, unless there are some extremely severe space and electrical power constraints.
The price per core has always been greater for the processors with high core count, but they were never so inaccessible as they are since the Skylake Server launch in 2017.
For AMD, since the Epyc 1 launch and continuing with Epyc 2, until 24 cores the price per core is really cheap, similar to Intel Atom cores. For 32 cores the processors become more expensive per core, but are still at a reasonable level. 48-cores and higher are expensive per core, but still seem like a bargain when compared with the Intel prices.
> Intel's Xeon prices are so fake it hurts. Typical customers are paying at least half of list, and
> likely much more than that now. I wouldn't be surprised if Intel starts doing 2for1 deals too.
Intel's Xeon prices may be fake for big spender companies, but they are the actual prices that I and any other individual must pay at retail shops.
That means that the high-core-count Intel CPUs are as good as non-existent for individual buyers or small companies, because it is much cheaper to buy a larger number of servers with low-core-count CPUs, unless there are some extremely severe space and electrical power constraints.
The price per core has always been greater for the processors with high core count, but they were never so inaccessible as they are since the Skylake Server launch in 2017.
For AMD, since the Epyc 1 launch and continuing with Epyc 2, until 24 cores the price per core is really cheap, similar to Intel Atom cores. For 32 cores the processors become more expensive per core, but are still at a reasonable level. 48-cores and higher are expensive per core, but still seem like a bargain when compared with the Intel prices.