I went the opposite way and went back to Intel after many many years on AMD. I snagged a Xeon 654 Granite Rapids ($850) for a new workstation geared towards local inference. I don’t need a ton of CPU cores and all Granite Rapids have 8 memory channels where as you need very high end Threadrippers (9975wx for $4000) for an equivalent due to their CCD design.
As a bonus Granite Rapids is super power efficient and runs much cooler than my previous TR and Ryzens. Intel seems to be doing good things again! My only minor complaint is that P2P doesn’t work on my multiple GPU setup because every PCIe5x16 lane has its own dedicated root to the CPU, but all that bandwidth is useful for MoE models that are offloaded to RAM.
As a bonus Granite Rapids is super power efficient and runs much cooler than my previous TR and Ryzens. Intel seems to be doing good things again! My only minor complaint is that P2P doesn’t work on my multiple GPU setup because every PCIe5x16 lane has its own dedicated root to the CPU, but all that bandwidth is useful for MoE models that are offloaded to RAM.