Minecraft cache question

McLovnUrMother · July 9, 2023

I’m thinking about getting the new Ryzen 5 5600X3D for my home hosted Minecraft server. Was curious though if anyone knew if Minecraft would benefit from the ridiculous amount of L3 cache? Clock speeds alone are similar, so the usage of a higher cache would be the deciding factor. Or is there another Ryzen CPU in the same budget bracket that would be better overall? TYIA and I appreciate y’all’s time!

manikyath · July 9, 2023

minecraft (java) server is a very strange creature. i'd assume the X3D's insane amount of cache isnt much of a help, because the "just the X, non-3D" also has much many cache because much many cores, and minecraft server isnt flooding all the cores with tasks.

but that's just assumptions, and testing the performance of a minecraft server to this detail is.. tricky at best. it might be, for example, that you see an uptick in terrain gen, but a small downfall in mob AI, for example.

having all that said, if it's just for home hosted minecraft (and no other resource intensive tasks) you're gonna see surprisingly little difference between the 5600X and 5800X, because those two extra cores give you nothing you need.

McLovnUrMother · July 9, 2023

3 hours ago, manikyath said:

minecraft (java) server is a very strange creature. i'd assume the X3D's insane amount of cache isnt much of a help, because the "just the X, non-3D" also has much many cache because much many cores, and minecraft server isnt flooding all the cores with tasks.

but that's just assumptions, and testing the performance of a minecraft server to this detail is.. tricky at best. it might be, for example, that you see an uptick in terrain gen, but a small downfall in mob AI, for example.

having all that said, if it's just for home hosted minecraft (and no other resource intensive tasks) you're gonna see surprisingly little difference between the 5600X and 5800X, because those two extra cores give you nothing you need.

Thank you for your time and reply! I had similar reservations. I have been looking up a bit more and it seems that a CPU that offers higher single core throughput might be a good option as well. So I’ll be looking in that direction. Do you happen to have any more info about home hosted Minecraft servers that might be useful?