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I can't benchmark with a CPU I don't have, and I can't advise a customer to go off and buy a $50K server just for a "quick benchmark".

Even if I were to, say, test with some cloud VMs, even then there are confounding issues. The different VM size categories aren't just different in the CPU type only, there are other differences that'll make the benchmark difficult to interpret. Memory type, throttling, HT on/off, etc...

Why is it so difficult for Microsoft to simply say "AVX-512 supported" somewhere in their documentation?

This is like every TV vendor saying "HDMI" instead of "HDMI 2.1" or whatever. Just because the port looks the same doesn't mean that they're identical! Versions matter.



"AVX-512 supported" doesn't say much either.

They used to publish reference designs with specific servers and components.


you could rent an avx-512 vm in the cloud for a few hours?




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