AMD Makes A Compelling Case For Budget-Friendly Ryzen Dedicated Servers

Diving deeper than the overall geometric mean, above is the geo mean looking at the code compilation times for building Apache, PHP, the Linux kernel, LLVM, FFmpeg, MPlayer, Build2, and Wasmer. With going up to 16 cores / 32 threads, the Ryzen 3000/5000 series can work out great if looking to setup a budget CI/CD system, remote build system, and similar usage.

When looking at data compression performance across 7-Zip, Zstd, and LZ4, it largely depends upon the compression algorithm and compression level for how competitive the Xeon E series were against the AMD Ryzen processors.

And a look at the database tests geometric mean across SQLite, Apache Cassandra, PostgreSQl, MariaDB, and InfluxDB. Again though it largely depends upon how lightly (or heavily) loaded the server is for how competitive the Xeon E series is against the AMD Ryzen server competition.

If just running a lot of Python scripts, the Xeon E-2388G with its 5.1GHz boost speed does perform very well.

And the renderer performance across Blender, Appleseed, POV-Ray, and OSPray leaned heavily in favor of the AMD Ryzen server configurations tested with their higher core/thread counts.

Similarly, the video encode performance across SVT-AV1, SVT-HEVC, Kvazaar, and x265 heavily favored the AMD Ryzen processors.