Which is better for workstation i9 OR Xeon ?

[qqq]

Hi,
In July I put together Dell 5820 workstation with following specs & many of you helped me then. But due to some circumstances I did not buy it then.

Then i9 was not offered by Dell only Xeon, but now they do. So the question now is which is better ? ( With i9 they do not offer ECC memory )

Intel Core i9-10900X (3.7GHz, 4.7GHz Turbo, 10C, 19.25MB Cache, HT, (165W), DDR4-2666 Non-ECC)

OR

Intel Xeon W-2245 (8C, 3.9GHz 4.7GHz Turbo HT 16.5MB, (155W) DDR4-2933)

I use only tick charts. Do not play games.

The configuration I put together was as follows.

CPU :

Xeon W-2245

RAM :

16 GB ECC DDR4 2933

Grahics Cards :

AMD Radeon WX 3200, 4 GB ( 3 of them for 12 Monitors )

Boot Hard Drive :

M.2 256 GB PCIe NVMe Class 40 Solid State Drive

Extra Hard Drives :

2 x 1TB + 3 x 2 TB ( Total 5. All 3.5 inch Sata 7200 RPM )

Thanks

 

[traider]

Xeon is very good value when you buy older generations but you gotta be savvy

 

[Scataphagos]

The take on Xeons is (1) they have more features than non-Xeons... features that may not apply to you, and (2) they were built with the expectation that they might be left on 24/7. Hence the greater cost.

Even saw a claim once, "Leaving your Xeon on 24/7 for 5 years will not invalidate the warranty". I know of no such claim for non-Xeons.

The Core i9 with NECC memory is a few $$Hundred less, isn't it?

Perhaps with the way you'll use it there will be no practical diff.

 

[DaveV]

The W-2245 is a very fast CPU. I don't understand why you would pair such a fast CPU with such slow hard drives.

 

[rb7]

The W-2245 is a very fast CPU. I don't understand why you would pair such a fast CPU with such slow hard drives.

I tend to agree. Don't bother and go with SSDs
Personally, I would go with the least expensive (i9 I presume?).
Also, don't go cheap on RAM. Go with 32 Gb.

 

[qqq]

Price & Passmark

i9 = $580.00 ( Passmark - 22683 )
Xeon = $ 730.00 ( Passmark - 19288 )

My question is which has better performance when it comes to using tick charts ?

 

[qqq]

The W-2245 is a very fast CPU. I don't understand why you would pair such a fast CPU with such slow hard drives.

The boot drive & my trading software is going to be on M.2 256 GB PCIe NVMe Class 40 Solid State Drive

Isn't that the one doing all the work ?

Others are just the storage drives.

 

[Scataphagos]

Price & Passmark

i9 = $580.00 ( Passmark - 22683 )
Xeon = $ 730.00 ( Passmark - 19288 )

My question is which has better performance when it comes to using tick charts ?

No way to know prior to doing a test and comparo.

 

[Scataphagos]

Price & Passmark

i9 = $580.00 ( Passmark - 22683 )
Xeon = $ 730.00 ( Passmark - 19288 )

My question is which has better performance when it comes to using tick charts ?

The i9 has more cores so it rates a higher passmark score. However, the "single thread" performance of the two is nearly the same.

So the question becomes, "does the software use more cores if available"? Lots of multi-thread software use 2 cores intensively and ignore others available, so having more cores is of little value. No way to know without testing.

 

[Scataphagos]

Go with 32 Gb.

Not necessarily.

No need to have more RAM than is actually used. Even more so with more expensive ECC.

Best way... check task manager to see how much RAM is actually used and buy accordingly.

My trading rig has only 8GB RAM and usually runs ~40% usage. Therefore, 16GB would be a waste. 32GB even a bigger waste.

And if you can't determine your actual usage, you can always start with 8GB and add more if necessary.