AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Make For Compelling Budget Servers, Leading Performance & Value Over Xeon E

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 5 September 2023 at 08:00 PM EDT. Page 4 of 13. 38 Comments.
nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 100. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 1000. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.

The AMD Ryzen 7000 series in server form can also serve as a nice SOHO server for Nginx or similar web serving use-cases. The Ryzen 7000 series performed great for Nginx serving static content via HTTPS and was a big upgrade over the Ryzen 5000 series and also easily shooting past the Xeon E-2300 series.

nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 1000. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.
nginx benchmark with settings of Connections: 1000. Ryzen 9 7950X3D was the fastest.

The AMD Ryzen 7000 series "X3D" 3D V-Cache processors were delivering a particularly compelling case for power efficiency with Nginx.

OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: RSA4096. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: SHA256. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: SHA512. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: AES-256-GCM. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: ChaCha20. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

There was also terrific generational improvement with the commonly used OpenSSL cryptographic library.

OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: ChaCha20-Poly1305. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: ChaCha20-Poly1305. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.
OpenSSL benchmark with settings of Algorithm: ChaCha20-Poly1305. Ryzen 9 7950X was the fastest.

The AMD Ryzen 7000 series X3D parts stood out again with their excellent performance-per-Watt in these server workloads.


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