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Comment by dragontamer

Not really. iMac Pro is Intel chips, and there's pretty much no Intel chip that beats AMD on price/performance.

Intel's main selling point is AVX512 support, which is a niche but it does provide benefits in some workloads. AMD's "more cores" approach is probably superior in most applications however. (It gets complicated: AVX512 uses more power, causing frequency drops. But SIMD-parallelism is innately more power-efficient than more cores... it depends on how much your computer uses AVX512, how sensitive it is to frequency slowdowns... etc. etc)

parent dragontamer 6 years ago

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