Would the extra L3 Cache of X3D chips help game server hosting?

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Some testing was done in this thread.

Minecraft Servers and X3D

My Interpretation of the results: TLDR: X3D CPUs do perform better in some cases while not lagging behind much in others. They are definitely worthwhile if budget is not an issue. SMT should be enabled, as disabling it provides at most a few % of performance uplift, at the cost of more than 50% reduction in world generation speed. Limitations: …