Hello, I want to standardize my home servers and reduce them to 3 Proxmox computers. 2x a Tiny server and a slightly more powerful one for AI (ollama/open webui and deepseek-r1-70b, CPU based only, no GPU).

For the more powerful server, I am wavering between 2 processors: i9-10940X vs. i9-14900KS.

i9-10940X

  • 14 Cores (3,30-4,8 GHz == 67,2 GHz)
  • 28 Threads
  • Quadro-Channel DDR4-2933 (PC4-23466, 93.9GB/​s)

i9-14900KS

  • 24 Cores (8Power+16Economy - 2,40-6,2 GHz == 117,6GHz)
  • 32 Threads
  • Dual-Channel DDR5-5600 (PC5-44800, 89.6GB/​s)

I don’t like the Idea of the Power/Economy-Cores… And the newer i9 has only dual-channel for RAM instead of quad. But it has double of GHz.

Which is better for my solution? I also want a relative low idle power consumption.

thank you all!

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    4 days ago

    10940X

    “They say”, but they’re right. Ryzen chips do have worse idle power usage, but you’re talking about 10w or so, at most.

    And uh, if you were looking at an X-series CPU, I can’t see how that 10w is a dealbreaker, because you were already looking at a shockingly inefficient chip.