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Which would be better, an I3-9100F (4 core) or a Ryzen 5 1600 (6 core) for a homelab (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by Altruistic_Grab_4414@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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As the title says, I’m making a home lab and have these two cpus laying around, my question is is which would be better for a home lab, would having the extra 2 cores be beneficial?

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[–] DarkKnyt@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

If you're going to use this for a hypervisor then definitely the six cores. If you had at least six cores then I would say you want to go with the higher single core performance especially if you do stuff like compiling.

[–] EasyRhino75@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

The Intel probably has lower power consumption at idle. But if that isn't a big concern for you then I would go with the ryzen because more cores

Also, there may be big motherboard differences that might sway you to one or the other. Like better expansion capability.