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

Besides the PostgreSQL read-write performance, the other traditional LAMP area where the Xeon E-2300 series held up to the AMD Ryzen competition was for MariaDB (MySQL) when experiencing low numbers of connections. Obviously with a low number of connections/clients, the CPU is being less utilized and in those scenarios the Xeon E-2388G with its higher boost clock speed did come out slightly ahead or comparable to the Ryzen 5800/5900 series. At around 32 concurrent clients and higher is where there was more competition and ultimately leaning in favor of the AMD CPUs with their higher core counts.

The AMD Ryzen processors performed much better than the Intel Xeon E series for the OpenSSL crypto benchmarks though with EEMBC's SecureMark benchmark, the Xeon E-2386G/E-2388G did narrowly pass the Ryzen 5900 series processors tested.

SIMDJSON is popular for high speed parsing when dealing with massive amounts of JSON data, but it's single-threaded at that. The Xeon E-2300 series can perform great with SIMDJSON if that's all you are doing is sequentially doing a lot of JSON handling, but if running in parallel or also engaging the server in other workloads simultaneously is where the outcome may be different.