Kind of a dumb question but I’m genuinely curious: is this a worthwhile upgrade? I run a server with a single vm and a few dozen docker containers. I’m intrigued by performance and efficiency cores and whether there would be a noticeable effect on both energy efficiency and performance vs the 12th gen. I’ve looked at the cpu benchmark comparison and see the numbers and there looks like a big increase in performance with little downside other than the cost of doing it. Any input is appreciated.

  • Tiff@reddthat.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m always look at ongoing costs rather than upfront and mostly thats the TDP, which is exactly the same. So I would agree with your sentiment. The major cost is performing it.

    Single thread has a small increase 5% or so, but you have double the amount of threads. So your two dozen (24) docker containers could have a thread per container! Thid could benefit you a lot if you were running anywhere near 100% or have long running multithread jobs.

    If I had the disposable money and I thought I could sell the 12th gen CPU then maybe. But i’m still rocking some old E3-12xx v3 Xeons which probably costs me more per year than what you will pay to upgrade!

    • gazoinksboe@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Thank you for the reply! I am probably in the same boat as you when it comes to tangible energy/cost savings but was curious. Maybe if I can catch a deal and get a decent amount for my existing CPU, I’ll pull the trigger