My gains since all-time-high have got an awfully big cut, that's for sure. Although I trolled TheWatsonYouth for his bigotry, he did give good advice on protecting my gains. So I feel a little like a "dam fool", right now, I must admit. But, on the whole, I don't care that much. While I don't know where the market will bottom out in this virus climate, I expect the AMD stock to return to its heights in due course. I can wait.
For some good news, here is Cloudflare's EPYC benchmark:
Impact of Cache Locality
"The single AMD EPYC 7642 performed very well during our lab testing, beating our Gen 9 server with dual Intel Xeon Platinum 6162 with the same total number of cores. Key factors we noticed were its large L3 cache, which led to a low L3 cache miss rate, as well as a higher sustained operating frequency. The AMD 2nd Gen EPYC 7642 did not have as big of an advantage in production, but nevertheless still outperformed all previous generations. The observation we made in production was based on a PoP that could have been influenced by a number of other factors such as but not limited to ambient temperature, timing, and other new products that will shape our traffic patterns in the future such as WebAssembly on Cloudflare Workers. The AMD EPYC 7642 opens up the possibility for our upcoming Gen X server to maintain the same core count while processing more requests per second than its predecessor."
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