AMD EPYC 7401P: 24 Cores / 48 Threads At Just Over $1000
There are performance-per-dollar graphs later on in this article, but with the EPYC 7401P it's easy to compare on their own with this CPU costing about half the price of a single Xeon Gold 6138. Unfortunately, I have only these few Xeon Scalable CPUs for comparison, but the results speak for themselves.
The EPYC 7401P is offering a lot for about $1000 USD.
As a reminder, the 7401P can only be run in a single socket configuration.