Which one to host a server? 14900K or 9950X？

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Dwight1225

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2.0 is coming, which is quite exciting! Me and my friends can explore the new version, especially many kinds of new features. We decide to continue hosting the dedicated server on my PC using IPv4. Now I have two choices for using the CPU. One is the 14900K, the other one is 9950X(For 1.0, we were using the 14900K, and there is a 9950X which I just bought around 5 months ago).

There core question is that which one is better for hosting a 7DTD dedicated server.
I searched about this question in forum. 7DTD dediated servers are usually run at just 1 core in most of the time, 14900K can use Intel(R) Extreme Tuning Utility to adjust the one core to 6.1Ghz which suits this feature quite well. When it runs at 4 cores(It seems that 4 cores are used at maximum in some situations), the 14900K can still run at 5.8Ghz.
While 9950X can make up to 5.7Ghz for all cores, and it uses the newest process. I have watched a lot of videos and know that 9950X is quite competent in gaming or productivity. So I don't know which one is better for hosting a dedicated server.

There were about 20 players in my server, and the maximum can reach to 30 players. In the past, when I using 14900K to host, it would be slightly weired in bloodmoon because generating zombies consumes a lot of computation(zombies don't move or their tracking paths to players can be confusing). But if it is not in the bloodmoon, everything would be quite fine.

So, is there any update about hosting a dedicated server in 2.0? Which one could be better to host a dedicated server? If there is any other CPU that can perform better than these two, plz tell me. I would appreciate it very much if you guys can tell me! Thx a lot!
 
Intel CPU's stopped being relevant with the 12th-gen. There is a Pinned post regarding this in the Support section.

The 14900k has half the CPU cores of the 9950X, and is not as good at multithreading. The client will rely on the former a lot if you aren't bottlenecked by Windows, and the latter quite a bit for managing child-tasks.

From personal experience, go with AMD. I hosted 4-5 live servers with 20-players each on a 5950X with a custom OC curve and had no issues. (OS was Debian 12)
 
SylenThunder said:
Intel CPU's stopped being relevant with the 12th-gen. There is a Pinned post regarding this in the Support section.

The 14900k has half the CPU cores of the 9950X, and is not as good at multithreading. The client will rely on the former a lot if you aren't bottlenecked by Windows, and the latter quite a bit for managing child-tasks.

From personal experience, go with AMD. I hosted 4-5 live servers with 20-players each on a 5950X with a custom OC curve and had no issues. (OS was Debian 12)
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Thx a lot! I am using Windows to start a dedicated server and will be using Windows to start a 2.0 dedicated server. Is it still recommended using 9950X to run a dedicated server in Windows? Today I looked through a lot of PC hardware videos, and I found that processing speed (core frequency) is not the only reason that the single core ability gets a higher rating or score in some tests. Therefore, I might get a conclusion that 9950X might be better than 14900K.
 
Dwight1225 said:
Thx a lot! I am using Windows to start a dedicated server and will be using Windows to start a 2.0 dedicated server. Is it still recommended using 9950X to run a dedicated server in Windows? Today I looked through a lot of PC hardware videos, and I found that processing speed (core frequency) is not the only reason that the single core ability gets a higher rating or score in some tests. Therefore, I might get a conclusion that 9950X might be better than 14900K.
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yeah, I would still use the 9950X with Windows. Just be aware that you are going to hit some walls with Windows that you won't with Linux. That is not including the 10-15% performance boost you will get from better resource management in Linux over Windoze.
 
SylenThunder said:
yeah, I would still use the 9950X with Windows. Just be aware that you are going to hit some walls with Windows that you won't with Linux. That is not including the 10-15% performance boost you will get from better resource management in Linux over Windoze.
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Btw, does big cache make better performance in hosting a 7DTD dedicated server? 9950X3D would be better than 9950X?
 
Go for 9950X. I know some server owners that had issues using Intel's 14th gen including myself.

Don't use the 3D versions of Amd for hosting, it will drop your performance.
 
mandalorianisback said:
Go for 9950X. I know some server owners that had issues using Intel's 14th gen including myself.

Don't use the 3D versions of Amd for hosting, it will drop your performance.
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Oh no~ I just have a 9950X3D for now. Like how? I mean how X3D would drop the performance if X3D series are intentionally for server purpose(a youtuber said the big cache was designed for server CPUs).
 
You should be fine then. Just for high pop servers (30+ people) isn't a good idea, I have seen personally the CPU dropping the performance to keep the CPU nice and cool.
 
mandalorianisback said:
You should be fine then. Just for high pop servers (30+ people) isn't a good idea, I have seen personally the CPU dropping the performance to keep the CPU nice and cool.
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Game client doesn't support 30+ players anyway. Data will bottleneck and corrupt. Doesn't matter how fast the hardware is, it is a software limitation.
 
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