Is there a difference between runnning Intel CPU's VS AMD EPYC CPU's?

[aubine]

Hello,

I'm looking into refreshing my hardware for my Splunk server and was wondering if:

1) Does Splunk support AMD Epyc CPU's?

2) Is there any performance difference between using Intel or AMD chips(ie is Intel preferred or is better optimized for)?

[richgalloway · Accepted solution]

Splunk minimum hardware requirements call for "Intel x86 64-bit chip architecture".  I would emphasize the "architecture" over the "Intel".  Splunk doesn't care about the brand name on the chip as long as it can do the same job.

[aubine]

@richgalloway  - Thanks!

I didn't think that it would matter, but I thought I would ask the community. The price difference between the CPU's is massive and has much higher core counts.