Posting in an EPYC thread: AMD renames Xeon-bashing Naples AMD has renamed its Zen-based Naples processor as the EPYC brand, pitching it as a data centre server CPU, and hopes to make inroads into both the dual-socket and single-socket server markets. We wrote about Naples in March, when we said it featured: A scalable, 32-core System on Chip (SoC) design, with two threads per core …
When it comes to AMD products, nothing significant will happen, and in cases with Ryzen processors, of course, some progress and improvement are there, but it's a big gap between marketing and real results. Compared Naples to Skylake sp series the difference will be great in favor of Intel.
> "Intel is generally double the performance of AMD for FP, but not integer"
Isn't that largely because Piledriver had a shared FP unit per module (2 cores), but integer units for each core in the module? Anandtech's review of the Ryzen 1800X puts puts it on a par with the i7-5960X - a couple of tests Ryzen's a bit behind, and a few it's a long way in front (I'm mostly looking at the encoding and scientific simulation benchmarks, but it holds true for their normal usage benchmarks too).
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