On: Intel is reducing server chip pricing in attempt to stem the AMD tide

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For non-NUMA aware workloads with high inter-core coordination (for example, a write heavy database workload) Intel will still perform much better because the cross-chiplet latency of EPYC chips is very high. Going through the IO die and to another chip is about as expensive as going to main memory.

Hyperscalers are running web servers which is a different story. But if you're running web servers you might be better off with Graviton in perf/$.

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Though there is the effect that clusters of eight cores on EPYC have faster access to each other than on Intel.