Intel makes an embarrassing ridicule by saying that the AMD EPYC Rome only outperforms the Xeon 8280 by 70%

Nth ridiculous from Intel to say that the EPYC Rome does not double the power of the Xeon 8280, it is only 70% more powerful, a rather ridiculous assessment.

A few days ago we saw how Intel tried to defend itself against the AMD attack in its Keynote. Lisa Su showed a benchmark where two EPYC Rome were twice the performance of two Intel processors. These types of benchmarks are indicative, since ALL brands use tricks to show that their products are the best. It is true that Zen2 is an architecture that has arrived and has given a kick in all the real slopes of Intel. The company, to defend itself against the attack, has shown a counter-benchmark comparing the EPYC Rome and its processors.

Intel responds to the AMD EPYC Rome benchmark

According to Intel, its competitor in the market manipulated the benchmark. They claim that the tests were not set up correctly and that it was not compared to their best processors. Logically they have taken their own benchmark, which coincidentally, sweeps home.

The highest-end EPYC Rome features 64 cores and 128 threads. There is no Xeon with so many cores, the top of the range is the Xeon 8280 with 28 cores and 56 threads. Logically the AMD processor will win easily, because it has more cores, but there are other considerations. We do not know how much the EPYC Rome consumes, but surely less than two Xeon 8280s and without a doubt it is cheaper.

But it is that the thing is that Intel could still have kept his mouth shut, because his benchmark is worth framing. The company has correctly optimized the system and obtained a 30% improvement over the benchmark shown by AMD. The thing is that an AMD EPYC no longer performs twice as much as a Xeon 8280, now it only performs 70% more. Yes, it is an important ridiculous and something with little sense, really. They waste their time on bullshit instead of pulling 10nm for desktop all at once.

Source: TH