Jaster Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 I'm thinking of getting a Threadripper for Virtualization (Windows VMs). Does anyone has some experience and can compare with Intel? Right now I'm using some Intel HEDT which I oc by 30~40% (allcore!) and that setup performance very well - but the amount of cores is quite low for what I need I also do use nested virtualization (not sure it matters). Soooo... should I give AMD a shot or just keep adding more Intels? Quote Link to comment
joecool169 Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 I'm not on threadripper but my daily driver is an unraid server with a 5950x 64GB Ram and a Rtx3090. I spend most of my time in an Arch linux vm. That vm has 2 usb controllers and a sata controller passed through to it as well as the gpu.I also have a windows 10 vm with the same gpu and USB passed through but 2 nvme drives instead of the sata controller. (So I only use 1 vm at a time, spaceinvader script to switch)My motherboard is Msi meg x570 unify and I think the iommu groupings are excellent. It has taken me much time and effort, lots of tinkering to get everything working the way I want. I play most games on high to ultra settings at 144fps, I don't play anything really new or demanding. If I were to have a complaint it's msfs 2020. In a populated area my fps dips down to 20. I'm pretty sure this is an issue with running in a virtual machine because on my old bare metal Intel 8700k I got 35fps+ in the same areas. All in all I am pretty happy with my setup, but it has been frustrating off and on getting everything to function the way I want.Sent from my SM-N975U1 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
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