I will soon receive an Intel i7 13700 (8 P cores, 8 E cores) to hopefully configure a 1 tower 2 gaming VM setup (nothing else, no docker, no NAS, ...).
My plan is the following :
4 isolated P cores (+ HT) for the first VM + 2 isolated E cores for the emulator (emulatorpin) + RTX 4070 ;
3 isolated P cores for the second VM + 1 pinned-only P core (cpu 0 cannot be isolated to the best of my knowledge) + 2 isolated E cores for the emulator + RTX 4060 ;
4 E cores for UNRAID.
My questions are the following :
Since the host should not be too busy, is it a good idea to pin the first unisolated P core to the second VM ? or shall I expect performance drop anyway ?
Would one isolated E core per VM be sufficient for handling emulation stuffs (emulator pin) ?
Would it be a good idea to isolate+pin additional E cores to the gaming VMs ? Do UNRAID and/or guest and/or gaming apps handle hybrid CPU correctly ? I've read a lot on that topic, but nothing very recent.
Are 4 P cores / 8 T sufficient for running recent AAA titles ? Max resolution will be 2K.
Any other suggestion ?
All the best,