AMD's EPYC 7773X 'Milan-X' listed by retailer.
AMD 64-Core EPYC 'Milan-X' Listed For More Than $10,000 : Read more
AMD 64-Core EPYC 'Milan-X' Listed For More Than $10,000 : Read more
The difference between the two cpu's is relative peanuts when it comes to the total build price, ram and storage have a tendency to cause pricing to creep up much more than that 15% price delta between the CPU's. Also if it increases the speed that you can complete jobs then that small price difference may more than pay for itself in very short order.
I don't know what you're talking about, I've totally never seen a company pay over 180K in monthly Microsoft licensing beforeJust to point out that the entire server price is also peanuts compared to software. The real killer is software license and maintenace package, not the hardware. Hardware cost is usually just ~10-20% of the total system cost.