Homeserver advice: i9-14900KS vs. i9-10940X
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Thank you! The AMD-Route sounds also promising, but I'm not sure about there idle power consumption. they say that intle is bettle in idle mode.
But i'm not sure if proxmox can handle the E-cores properly. -
Thank you! I will look into Gamer's Nexus.
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In my experience, idle power consumption mainly depends on the mainboard used. The processors all(?) clock down to some more or less energy-efficient level. But the specific design of the mainboard and the components on it could double or half energy consumption.
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The 14th gen didn't only have problems with Linux and I still don't trust Intel when they say they "fixed" the CPUs disassembling themselves. Given the money involved I'd definitely advise against 13th and 14th gen Intel in any case, just not worth the potential headache down the road. Either go with older Intel or AMD.
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https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/3639vs5957/Intel-i9-10940X-vs-Intel-i9-14900KS
The new one is significant more powerful, and almost certainly has better efficiency.
I would just verify that your OS properly supports P/E cores.
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You're not going to run deepseek r1 without GPUs (plural).
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At which altar should we pray to the idol cores?
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10940X
"They say", but they're right. Ryzen chips do have worse idle power usage, but you're talking about 10w or so, at most.
And uh, if you were looking at an X-series CPU, I can't see how that 10w is a dealbreaker, because you were already looking at a shockingly inefficient chip.
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you can, but it'll be the distilled versions that are significantly less impressive.
https://apxml.com/posts/gpu-requirements-deepseek-r1
Newer versions also introduce memory mapping so they're technically only bound by your storage capacity (but they're way slower in practice).
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Might be a bit late on this, but ProxMox doesn't really handle assigning threads to the e/p cores. That's handled by the kernel and as long you're running kernel version 6.1 or greater you should be good on that front.
If you really need to, you can also pin specific VMs to specific cores. So that if you've got something that always needs the performance it can always run on the p-cores and things that aren't as demanding can always run on e-cores.
That said, especially if you're over provisioning, it's probably better to let the scheduler in the kernel handle thread assignments.
