On: Intel's 50-Core Xeon Phi: The New Era of Inexpensi...

[rorrr]

> Suggested reatail pricing for the initial model is $2649, with subsequent models expected to cost less than $2000

That's $44.15 per 1 GHz core.

AMD FX-6300 Six-Core 3.5GHz is $138 = $23 per core (and much faster cores).

Intel Xeon 5148 2.33ghz is $18.

[jlgreco → rorrr]

How do differences in supporting-hardware/density change the effective pricing? It seems to me like the Phi cores could end up cheaper once you factor in everything else that you need to get that many cores of something else.

[codewright → jlgreco]

Cost of power, power supplies, motherboards, memory, networking equipment, efficiency losses from synchronization, etc...

[rorrr → jlgreco]

You need just three of AMDs CPUs to match the 60 1GHz cores.

You can get a quad CPU motherboard relatively cheaply:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Arima-Quad-CPU-16-Core-AMD-Opteron-M...

Also don't forget to add the same costs for the Phi solution.

[astrodust → rorrr]

The 50-core Xeon sounded great up until the $2600 price tag. You can buy a lot of CPU cores for that much money if you have quad-socket boards like that.