HPC and scientific computing are quite small niches of the server market though. The database, java etc benchmarks are more important in making or breaking it as a commerical product.
Sure, but I was addressing the areas where the Zen arch is clearly not beating Intel. Database, java, etc. are areas where the initial benchmarks indicate that EPYC is quite competitive.
But the article states that they didn't have enough time to tune (they had the chip for just a week compared to 2 weeks for Intel) and a more detailed look is forthcoming from Anandtech, so it might be wise to wait for that.
