i9 12900k vs ryzen 7 5800x reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Butterwhales · 2023-09-27 21:10 I've recently been looking into building my own server for some game hosting (Minecraft) as well as a bunch of other small things like jellyfin and hosting a website etc. I was planning on using proxmox for the OS I have seen a deal with a i9 12900k which would cost me about the same as the ryzen 7 5800x but I was worried about the greater power consumption and the e cores used on the i9 1200k has anyone used this processor in their own server and how has it worked out? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nik_h_75 · 2023-09-27 21:52 Honestly sounds way overpowered for what you need. With Linux and containers you really don't need much (16gb ram) to have a high performing server. Only? Edge case is if you want to transcode video - for that Intel with quicksync is the winner (afaik). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Butterwhales · 2023-09-27 22:04 Yeah that's fair going for this spec of hardware for the single threaded speed and since I mostly do really heavy modded mc so it might struggle with what i put it through since mc is really only single threaded. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- chaplin2 · 2023-09-27 22:46 It’s overkill. Also, you will not be able to cool that CPU. It might need liquid cooling, and cpu power limiting, and perhaps even overclocking (in which case one could buy a less powerful CPU). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Butterwhales · 2023-09-27 22:58 Thats fair I forgot the heat monster the I9 12900k was maybe thats why its at such a discount :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NikStalwart · 2023-09-28 01:25 All else being equal, I'd go for the 12900k. New(er) gen, intel fanboy, etc. I also fall in the camp of "more cores = better" if you are doing any kind of virtualization/containerization. Until that rumored 96-thread Ryzen drops, Intel desktop CPUs win the core/thread battle. Having said that, my daily driver is a 12700k and my home server is on a 12500. Take that as you will. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ethansky · 2023-09-28 01:47 Might I recommend a 5700g over the 5800x? It's what I run on my HPC server. Still 8c16t, except 65W tdp rather than 105W and comes with a stock cooler, which is more than enough for my use case (Proxmox hypervisor, half the RAM going to Truenas and the other half to things that need high single thread performance, like modded Minecraft servers). Also has an APU meaning I don't need an additional GPU to get video out, which has saved by butt a couple times. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- beetcher · 2023-09-28 10:10 Depending on your hypervisor, e-cores are not a sure thing for increased performance. In some cases only using e-cores.