AMD Opteron 6386 SE (16 cores)vs Intel Xeon E5-2698 V3 (16 cores) Ansys

[Aarron Coooke]

Hi, im pricing a Simulation workstation up for my work and need to know which CPU is the best for the job. At the moment it is set up to have dual cores so 32 in total.
Amd, these CPU's are generally a lot cheaper than intel. "You pay for what you get." But Intel offer a
CPU that is a bit more powerful than the AMD, How mush better though? The simulations heavily use Ansys HFSS and Ansys fluent. If anyone of you know which would be the best let me know, please don't just say AMD or Intel give some evidence of experience. thank you

Specs:

CPU: AMD or Intel 16 core DUAL
GPU: Nvidia Quadro 2gb
Ram 512Gb 16x32Gb DDR4

 

[kanewolf]

Looking at the system requirements description, Since the ANSYS software uses MPI, I might recommend you create a cluster of much less expensive hosts. It will give you scalability and you won't be on the bleeding edge for technology so your unit cost can be lower.

Get a set of 1U or 2U servers each with a NVIDIA K5000 GPU and connect them with copper 10GE network. You won't have a single point of failure like you will with a single large host. You can get higher clock speeds for each core because of the fewer cores / socket. Your power bill will be higher.

Just a thought.

 

[Aarron Coooke]

Noted, Thank you