>The biggest benefit may be from substantially increasing the amount of physical memory in a server: 2 socket Xeon systems can hold up to 3TB of RAM, but 24TB of Optane, and 4 socket systems support up to 12TB RAM, but 48TB Optane. This could be a huge boost for applications that need truly enormous quantities of memory.
So Intel just released a product that is basically aimed to compensate for low Xeon memory speed and capacity.
When they started R&D on optane in 2014, they probably didn't thought AMD would render it obsolete 1 month before it's release.
>>59488275
Optane is quite possibly the biggest product release fuckup Intel has ever pulled off.
lol you obviously don't work anywhere near a datacenter or have anything to do with hardware
AMD doesn't come near servers, anon...
>>59488275
Optane is not as good as ram.
Optane isn't faster than a NVMe pcieX4 SSD.
Optane will end up just filling the gap until Intel manage to add more memory lanes to their Xeon CPU.
>Or until AMD gain traction in the server market.
>>59488330
we're talking about Naples dude
Intel's offerings are so fucking stale in comparison.
And if you worked around any kind of big iron then you know that procurement is fickle as fuck and will buy whatever has the best price/perf ratio
>>59488330
But AMD already coming to google's cloud servers, anon
>>59488475
>And if you worked around any kind of big iron then you know that procurement is fickle as fuck and will buy whatever has the best price/perf ratio
You dont know what a HCL is do you? ESXi still doesnt boot Ryzen and VMware hasnt made any statement about support it because no one outside of gaymers gives a fuck about AMD.
>>59488330
AMD is destroying Intel in server buys already this month.
hbm opteron when
>was hyped for Optane
>waited for it since it first announced
>lost patience due to lack of coverage and announcements from Intel that I ended buying a Samsung NVMe
Good to know my lack of patience paid off this time.