ESXi Freenas HW upgrade with Ryzen?

[John Doe]

Hi Folks,

I would like to bring my power consumption lower. Currently I am running between 87w and 113w in "idle" with ESXi 6.7 Freenas VM, pfSense and plex. pfSense is eating up a lot, roughly 26w

so my point is, will a new ryzen like the Ryzen 5 3600 with 6x 3,6ghz lower the consumption, compared to my main system in signature?

i dont want to change it for hobby purpose, it must be an eco reason for it. means if i safe 10 watts and I spend like 500 probably it is not worth upgrading.
so does someone has a gut feeling?


second point is a good motherboard.
and I might have found one which has all the fancy stuff I think I want to have:

ASRock Rack > X470D4U2-2T

www.asrockrack.com

so my question to this:
is any experience out there?
with that above mentioned ryzen and this board, is pci passthrough possible? I am not so familiar with amds vt-d


i am aware that this is probably a not so common setup, so i would be happy to get some feedback.

 

[sretalla]

so does someone has a gut feeling?

Your Xeon is already a pretty low-consumption package. The comparison here shows it may be worse... https://versus.com/en/amd-ryzen-9-3900x-vs-intel-xeon-e-2136 (granted not exact same models).

Also, you show that you're using "LSI Megaraid 9207-8i", but don't mention IT mode flashed... I hope that's just something you fail to mention, not failed to do.

 

[John Doe]

yes it is IT mode flashed.

may I ask what the graph shall show me?
only thing I could see is the TDP.
as far as I know amd and intel are taking different methods to measure TDP, furthermore TDP is used to design a cooling solution. I doubt that this is a good to estimate power consumption.

 

[sretalla]

Cooling needs are directly proportional to heat production, which is in turn directly related to the consumption of power.

 

[John Doe]

appreciate your feedback!

this weekend i will try out some google searching. maybe someone has already done it in comparison with another comparable cpu