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In my opinion they are not driving down prices heavily. They are just pricing their chips competitively so people will buy AMD over Intel, but they are not super cheaper. The pricing of AMD chips just makes sense if you look at the lineup and compare it to Intel.

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The number one chip on passmark right now is the 3900X which is beating intel units at nearly 4 times the cost.

Now passmark isn’t 100% accurate but it’s usually pretty close.

https://m.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

I’d call that aggressive myself.

Yeah, but we're talking server chips in TFA.

True but AMD hasn’t released Rome yet, given that in Benchmarks I posted the 12 core 24 thread is out performing the Xeons and given that Rome is a zen 2 based core I think it’s safe to extrapolate that AMD have a competitive or better processor portfolio compared to intel at this point.

Intel had been considered to get insane premiums on their chips for a long, long time...

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