On: AMD's Future in Servers: New 7000-Series CPUs Launched and EPYC Analysis

[jnordwick]

This gives a really bad picture of AMDs cache performance. The all important L1 and L3 are much slower than Intel. No bueno.

https://www.techpowerup.com/img/17-03-06/7ca3a1705392.jpg

[binarycrusader → jnordwick]

You have to be careful when comparing latencies as the numbers can be completely meaningless depending on workload.

Also, note that the numbers have changed significantly for Zen since its original launch due to updates from AMD/Manufacturers, so many of the numbers you see in older reviews are no longer accurate.

If you read reviews of the new Intel processor today, you'll see latency numbers have increased for Intel with their new architecture:

https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Intel-Core-i9-7900X...

In the end, workload-based performance metrics tend to be far more meaningful than synthetic benchmarks or simplistic latency measurements.