[Unraid] Thoughts and some benchmark

[thismaybeatest]

Hey folks,

 

Just finished upgrading my unraid pc today and wanted to share some information and sentiments about it.

 

Information

I watched Linus video about 6 Gamer 1 CPU a few months back, though it was insanely cool and decided to build one for myself. Hardware specs:

 

CPU: Ryzen 2700X - OC to 4.1GHz

Mobo: Asus Prime X470

Ram: 32GB 2666MHz Corsair LPX Ram(Quad) - OC to 3000MHz

GPU: Zotac 2080TI Amp

PSU: Some recycled piece from my old pc

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black

Monitor: 34" LG UltraGear 120Hz 1440P

Storage: 3X 8TB HGST HDD, 1x 500GB Samsung 860 Evo(Cache), 1x 500GB Samsung 970 Evo(windows)

 

Windows VM Setup:

6Core, 6Threads passthorugh

2080TI GPU passthrough

Samsung 970 Evo controller passthrough

 

So, with this specs excluding 2080TI, it was fantastic as my NAS + Plex + Docker + Linux VMs for basically my entertainment and poc development purposes. The question really came when I did some house renovation and wanted to get rid of my ITX pc and have just a single tower doing everything. The prospect of that was really interesting for me. So i went out and bought the 2080TI, plugged it in, did some unraid stuff and started playing FF15 on it. Already played it on PS4 but it was a different beast on this new monitor of mine.

 

Problem

When I started playing FF15, I watched some fps benchmarks of youtube reviewers and found that it was quite a bit lower on my setup. The first question I had was is it a CPU bottleneck? Nope, CPU usage was at 80-90%, GPU was at 100%.

The next question was is it Unraid & Kvm? Probably, so I set out to find the answer.

 

Cinebench R20

 

As seen in the image, the score is actually not apple's to apple's comparison since its 16(T+C) vs 12(T+C). 4140 is the 16TC performance. 2984 is the 12TC performance and honestly its not far off from the 3105 score(logical calculation).

That's ok. Not really in it for CPU anyway.

 

Unigine Heaven 4.0

 

Honestly, the difference is quite huge. Unlike the CPU test which was not apple's to apple. This was an apple's to apple test and the average fps was 137.9(unraid) vs 153(native). 10% drop in FPS just like that.

 

Conclusion

 

The overall lesser performance still doesn't take away the great benefit of Unraid. I still love it dearly and will not consider to leave it anytime soon and I am considering to upgrade it to 12C24T Ryzen 3 CPU once it comes out a few months later. If I am doing anything that is much lesser in GPU intensity such as coding sessions, I will still use Unraid + VM. If I am doing gaming that is AAA category, I am just gonna native boot to Windows.

 

Any Unraid users with any similar use case? would love to hear about your experience.
 

Edited March 8, 2019 by thismaybeatest

[paddy-stone]

2 minutes ago, thismaybeatest said:

3X 8GB HGST

Think you might've meant 8TB?

[paddy-stone]

6 minutes ago, thismaybeatest said:

upgrade it to 12C24T Ryzen 3 CPU

should be 3rd gen Ryzen/Ryzen 2 CPU there.