Ampere Altra 80-core Arm server processor now sampling

[HEXUS]

Developed on TSMC N7 process the chip is said to be faster than a 64-core AMD Epyc CPU.

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[Zak33]

Yeah... but can it run Crysis?

[T1nt1n]

More importantly, will it blend?

[tygrus]

An EPYC 7742 or faster would match the performance per rack for integer (maybe slightly higher power consumption). The AMD and Intel are probably better at FP seeing that it's not mentioned.

[DanceswithUnix]

Yeah... but can it run Crysis?

This amused me: https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/am...-graphics-card

Now this chip has 160 NEON simd units total, so I have to wonder if it could pull the same stunt with the Android version of Crysis

[lumireleon]

ARM versus X86: Apples to Apples comparison or based on ASSUMPTION?

[mtyson]

STH shared a photo of the Altra next to a can of coke for scale. See below:

[nobodyspecial]

That's a pretty big chip (well, 4 I guess it seems), but still. So 4 chiplets maybe? 20c each? Will wait for perf/reviews/price.

[Gentle Viking]

If you was rich, and have the "me so special" bug, you could tile your bathroom with these.

[Output]

If you was rich, and have the "me so special" bug, you could tile your bathroom with these.

"I'll be right back - I need to take a little visit to the datacenter..."