Intel: stay away?

[Abiel 475]

With the Meltdown and spectre design flaws, seems like fixes can degrade performance by 30%. Time to go AMD?

[Ryan W 76]

Not necessarily. It seems all chip manufacturers have some impact from this flaw. AMD typically has lower clock speeds and doesn't perform as well in number crunching applications (like trading platforms). My own results have been pretty stark when comparing an AMD chip to an Intel chip. Until they sort this out, this is going to be an on-going issue across all platforms.

[Abiel 475]

Thx... Win 10 update just arrived...

[CassA 0]

I would totally go AMD, especially Ryzen.

 

Ryan, I'm curious about your stark experience comparing AMD vs. Intel on trading platforms. I haven't thought about it alot just yet, but it would seem that network latency might be much more important then CPU compute. Network latency is measured in milliseconds vs. gigaherts.