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From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 17:10:29 GMT
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Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:
>Definitely - if you have 512 GB DDR5 memory in your workstation, the
>cost of the CPU itself is a relatively small fraction.

Reality check:
EUR
2400 =8*300 8*64GB MTC40F2046S1RC48BA1R Micron RDIMM 64GB, DDR5-4800 
9300 AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX 96C boxed

The Intel side is a little cheaper, but also offers fewer cores:

4100 Intel Xeon w9-3475X, 36C boxed
6800 Intel Xeon w9-3495X, 56C tray

In any case, all three CPUs are significantly more expensive than
512GB of RAM.

- anton
-- 
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  Mitch Alsup, <c17fcd89-f024-40e7-a594-88a85ac10d20o@googlegroups.com>