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  • PixyMisa - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link

    Interesting that these are 1P systems. With a $4000 1P Epyc able to replace two $10k Xeons, we may be in for a significant market shift.
  • Gondalf - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link

    "able" if the worlkload allow this. If you need of a strong per thread performance, "able" it is not.
    Many core is cute but only in some limited segments of server market.
    Pretty certain 2P servers will never be replaced and they will remain best seller, no matter with medium core number Epyc or Xeon SKUs inside.
  • dgingeri - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link

    These are aiming specifically toward the VM host market, the market with, currently, the biggest portion of the server market. With just a single socket and 32 or 64 cores, it saves a ton of money on VMWare vSphere hypervisor licensing, which is licensed on a per socket basis. The processors themselves cost half as much, and saving $4000 per machine on VMWare licensing in addition to the processor cost savings is a definite win. For a company like mine, that's a savings of about $10,000 per machine, or about $40,000-50,000 per customer. That's almost enough to hire a whole new support tech.
  • Skeptical123 - Friday, August 9, 2019 - link

    It's only a matter of time till companies either move away from the per socket price model or just increase the flat socket fee to compensate. In the short term (longer than most people thought tbf as that has been the case for a few years now) a company can save money by doing as you say. Going forward the per die thread increase in the plan for the foreseeable future especially with "chiplet" design and the companies licensing software know this too
  • coder543 - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link

    I think you're a bit confused. 2nd gen Epyc has incredibly strong per-thread performance.
  • Ace666 - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link

    You are the typical Intel fanshill, just like Witteken, too blind and to stupid to see how strong AMD has become. Go ahead act like clown, but one thing is asured.... AMD is years ahead of Intel, the only thing Intel can do is CATCH UP. Cheers dude
  • PixyMisa - Friday, August 9, 2019 - link

    If you have two $10k Xeons, you are already running many cores by definition, and a single 64-core Epyc can replace them for 80% less cost.
  • Santoval - Friday, August 9, 2019 - link

    "If you need of a strong per thread performance, "able" it is not."
    Er, are you talking about gaming or servers? And are you referring to first gen Epyc or Rome?
  • Atari2600 - Friday, August 9, 2019 - link

    "A new power is rising" Gondalf, and there ain't a thing your pinup boys can do about it.
  • Supercell99 - Sunday, August 11, 2019 - link

    64 cores is plenty for a ESXi box today. Vendors will replace socket count with core count and probably MHZ sum.
  • Count Rushmore - Thursday, August 8, 2019 - link

    This is epic! (Mind the pun)... With these options small scale 3D firms no longer need to hire/rent render farm.
  • Supercell99 - Sunday, August 11, 2019 - link

    How much are these going to cost?
  • csell - Monday, August 12, 2019 - link

    Hi.

    The Lenovo SR655 servers are higly modular and prices will depend on your configurations. Here is a link to the 82 page long Lenovo ThinkSystem SR655 Server Product Guide:

    http://lenovopress.com/lp1161.pdf

    Here are the two first prices I have seen:

    LENOVO ThinkSystem SR655 AMD EPYC 7742 64C 32GB 1x32GB 2Rx4 3200MHz RDIMM No Backplane SATA 1x1100W Tooless Rails to EUR 14.066,38 excl German sales tax and shiped at 27th August.

    LENOVO ThinkSystem SR655 AMD EPYC 7302P 16C 32GB 1x32GB 2Rx4 3200MHz RDIMM O/B 8,9cm 3,5Zoll HS 12 SATA 1x750W Tooless Rails to € 3.697,47 excl German sales tax and shiped at 27th August.

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