I was a bit confused on the expensive lastgen stuff when modern Ryzen and 12th gen Intel make up better home servers for less money and power.
That is understandable, doing a PassMark comparison between an 11900K and a 5900X shows the 5900X blowing it out of the water
What Intel makes up for in less impressive numbers, they make up with me not having to deal with issues that are present when you use Ryzen.
It is a damn shame, really that I had to pick Intel because an OS that is deprecated for its architecture (but still meets needs that neither Windows nor Linux can) won’t play nice with what is the current market leader (this is an oversimplification, there are technical nitty-gritties that make it so) but yeah, bang-for-the-buck, this is not.
Ryzen ticked all my other checkboxes and then some more, they have out-of-the-box ECC support, they have so many cores to spare with each single core dishing out enough performance that I could conceivably host even more VMs, has an iGPU unless you explicitly buy a non-iGPU SKU, most of AMDs bugs have been ironed out and Zen is been battle tested, I know where Ryzen shines (rise-and-shine, get it?)
All these goodies on top of better performance I have to give up, why? Because macOS was built around Intel’s x86_64 implementation, not AMD’s.
My wallet sheds a tear. But no use crying over spilt milk, I got what I paid for.