Microsoft Benchmarks Upcoming AMD Milan-X CPU
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Microsoft Benchmarks Upcoming AMD Milan-X CPU
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Re: Microsoft Benchmarks Upcoming AMD Milan-X CPU
#2These are very impressive gains. The era of >GB L3 cache is upon us.
Re: Microsoft Benchmarks Upcoming AMD Milan-X CPU
#3It's good to see Microsoft supports AMD now.
With recent benchmark of M1 family chip, I hope Windows don't support M1 chip, at least for now. I would like to see how AMD and Intel can do to change this performance game.
Re: Microsoft Benchmarks Upcoming AMD Milan-X CPU
#4It's good to see Microsoft supports AMD now. With recent benchmark of M1 family chip, I hope Windows don't support M1 chip, at least for now. I would like to see how AMD and Intel can do to change this performance game.
I don’t think x64 is ever going to backtrack to the power efficiency that arm offers. The real scare is if apple comes out with a new xserve with blades of arm processors.
Re: Microsoft Benchmarks Upcoming AMD Milan-X CPU
#5It's good to see Microsoft supports AMD now. With recent benchmark of M1 family chip, I hope Windows don't support M1 chip, at least for now. I would like to see how AMD and Intel can do to change this performance game.
When did Microsoft not "support" AMD CPUs?
It truly would not make any difference if Microsoft "supported" the M1 CPU, as Apple does not sell it to anyone without the rest of Apple computer attached to it. I mean, you can run Windows VMs on M1 computers now, with something like Parallels. But perhaps not more directly, as with Boot Camp?
> I would like to see how AMD and Intel can do to change this performance game
What are you trying to say here? In what way is AMD not "winning" the 64+ core CPU performance game?
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#6I was coming here to say: "Windows has an insignificant (actually 0% for a few years) market in top500. It is not a good benchmark for a processor with such a big number of cores.". Then was surprised to see that it was run in CentOS.
It is a shame that many sites didn't behaved like this when Threadripper was launched and basically said that the architecture was inefficient at using so many cores or the software simply was not ready yet. Phoronix was one of the few which did it right.
Re: Microsoft Benchmarks Upcoming AMD Milan-X CPU
#7I was coming here to say: "Windows has an insignificant (actually 0% for a few years) market in top500. It is not a good benchmark for a processor with such a big number of cores.". Then was surprised to see that it was run in CentOS. It is a shame that many sites didn't behaved like this when Threadripper was launched and basically said that the architecture was inefficient at using so many cores or the software sim…
Azure is the new darling "OS" for Microsoft, we are back into the mainframe/UNIX server days anyway.
Besides third party distributions, Microsoft now has three flavours of their own as well.
Azure Sphere OS, CBL-Mariner, then their Android flavours (althought it isn't really Linux) and RTOS like Azure RTOS.
Still owns the desktop, but since the internal political wars for the ultimate GUI framework started, I have started to doubt where it will all end.
Re: Microsoft Benchmarks Upcoming AMD Milan-X CPU
#8I was coming here to say: "Windows has an insignificant (actually 0% for a few years) market in top500. It is not a good benchmark for a processor with such a big number of cores.". Then was surprised to see that it was run in CentOS. It is a shame that many sites didn't behaved like this when Threadripper was launched and basically said that the architecture was inefficient at using so many cores or the software sim…
Like any major tech company, Microsoft runs a lot of Linux installations. Just because it's Microsoft doesn't mean all they care about is Windows.
Re: Microsoft Benchmarks Upcoming AMD Milan-X CPU
#9These are very impressive gains. The era of >GB L3 cache is upon us.
With the current roadmap, we are about 2-3 years away from 256 Core and 1GB L3 Cache.
What I want to see is a new and innovative way to cool these potential 400 - 700W monster tightly packed in a server.
Re: Microsoft Benchmarks Upcoming AMD Milan-X CPU
#10It's good to see Microsoft supports AMD now. With recent benchmark of M1 family chip, I hope Windows don't support M1 chip, at least for now. I would like to see how AMD and Intel can do to change this performance game.
I don’t think x64 is ever going to backtrack to the power efficiency that arm offers. The real scare is if apple comes out with a new xserve with blades of arm processors.
It's coming. My prediction is Apple will start doing server chips not too long from now, at least for internal use. This is going to be especially important as they emphasize their services more and more over their hardware.