- Sep 9, 2014
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First off, I understand the price points are different - this is strictly to understand the performance benefit (IF any) of the i7-5820K over the FX-8350 so we can accept or reject the price premium.
This will NOT be used for gaming but will instead be hosting a Hyper-V VM server running 4-6 VMs (2 Windows Servers, 4 Linux) that will be lightly-moderately used. It'll have 32 GB RAM (64 would be nicer, but cost+supported platforms ...)
Most of the benchmarks I see online are of games with almost no benchmark (synthetic or real) on virtualization performance.
So, can the 8 cores of the FX-8350 actually "beat" the i7-5820K for virtualization workloads? Any hard data? Any anecdotal tales of wonder?
Other CPUs we had originally considered:
This will NOT be used for gaming but will instead be hosting a Hyper-V VM server running 4-6 VMs (2 Windows Servers, 4 Linux) that will be lightly-moderately used. It'll have 32 GB RAM (64 would be nicer, but cost+supported platforms ...)
Most of the benchmarks I see online are of games with almost no benchmark (synthetic or real) on virtualization performance.
So, can the 8 cores of the FX-8350 actually "beat" the i7-5820K for virtualization workloads? Any hard data? Any anecdotal tales of wonder?
Other CPUs we had originally considered:
- The i7-4790 (non K) - we don't think half the number of cores would be useful so dropped it (and it's more expensive than the 8350)
- The AMD FX-9370/9590 etc - 220W TDP is too much