Confronto Prestazioni: Un vecchio processore Xeon 16 Core 2.3GHz (9.6GT-QPI) è ancora utile oggi?

[caroljames972022]

Hello everyone community,

I'm considering purchasing a used server/workstation for a home project. I found a deal on a system equipped with a Xeon E5-2690 v3 processor (or similar, 16 cores at 2.3GHz with QPI interface and 9.6GT/s).

My question is: can this processor, despite its dated architecture (Haswell-EP, 2014), still be relevant for modern use? Specifically, I'd like to use it for:

• Virtualization: Create 3-4 virtual machines (one for development, one as a media server, etc.).
• Video Encoding: Transcode home-made videos from large formats to something more manageable.
• Software compilation.

I know it has a lot of cores, but the frequency per core is low and the IPC architecture is behind a modern Ryzen or Xeon Scalable.

In your experience, can the 16-core parallel processing power offered by a CPU of this type compensate for the lower efficiency per core? Or do the power consumption and limitations of such an old platform (DDR3, PCIe 3.0) discourage its purchase, even at a very advantageous price?

Thanks in advance for your opinions and advice!

 

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