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		jwr on June 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How we got our AWS bill to around 2% of revenue > As an owner of an iMac Pro (the 10c/20t CPU variant) I have to tell you that you are slightly mistaken -- the Xeon-2150B is a pretty strong CPU even compared to the bursty high-end desktop i9 CPUs. I do not think I am mistaken. I haven't yet encountered a Xeon that can beat the desktop i9 in single-core performance. Looking at geekbench scores (https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks), my iMac is 10.5% faster in single-core than your iMac Pro, and your iMac Pro is about 15% faster in multi-core. For development work, I will take single-core performance any day.

pdimitar on June 29, 2020 [–]

Use cases and optimizing for them, I suppose.

I do mostly parallel work and for me the Xeon has proved itself as a better CPU compared to several desktop and laptop grade CPUs I also tried.

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