… Even Ice Lake-SP, which pushes Intel up to the 40-core mark, doesn't completely close the competitive gap with AMD's third-generation Epyc servers. The 56-core Sapphire Rapids CPU is said to have a 350W TDP, but that doesn't automatically mean higher core counts would push above this point. …
… Intel has been aggressively pushing its own performance and product introductions and we expect that to continue in 2022 - 2023. AMD has done well so far in the face of a resurgent Intel, but Zen 4 will need to hit the market firing on all thrusters when it arrives later this year. …
… The flip side to that is that the 16-core third-gen desktop Ryzen might not try to push the envelope right to the wall on both core count and clock speed. …