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

First up was looking at the code compilation performance across the selection of processors.

These benchmark results should hardly come as a surprise given my code compilation benchmarks on many of these AMD Ryzen processors I have separately reviewed under Linux on Phoronix. With the Xeon E-2388G topping out at 8 cores / 16 threads, the Ryzen 3000/5000 series at up to 16 cores / 32 threads easily race ahead when it comes to code compilation workloads.

AMD Ryzen, Threadripper, and EPYC all make great choices for build boxes thanks to their higher core counts generally against the Intel competition. This is why Linus Torvalds has gone for a Threadripper workstation, DragonFlyBSD's Matthew Dillon has highly praised Ryzen, and other favorable developer recommendations due to speedy build times.

If trying to construct a cost effective build farm or remote box(es) for frequent code compilation, even the prior generation Ryzen 9 3950X and other 3000 series processors still hold up strong for such use-cases.

During heavy compilation tasks like compiling the LLVM compiler, the Ryzen 9 3950X had a 113 Watt average and the Ryzen 9 5950X at a 125 Watt average compared to the Xeon E-2388G reporting a 95 Watt average. However, the Xeon E-2388G did have a significantly higher peak CPU power draw of 169 Watts compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X not exceeding 151 Watts.