A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Drafters without GPU)

Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by quietsegfault on Monday June 01, 2026 @10:40AM (#48357456)

I have two LARGE Xeon systems of this era that I used to use when I was heavily involved with Kubernetes and needed to build out a home lab. One is 2x Xeon w/ 256 GB of ram, and one is 1x Xeon w/ 512GB of ram. Both are slow as dogs, and both of them take up at least 150+ watts with only one power supply. My 12th gen Intel Nuc is so, so much faster and efficient. I'm recycling the Xeon systems.

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by gnerd00 on Monday June 01, 2026 @11:39AM (#48358331)

Xeon is a group of products with really varying specs. There is no indication of which XEONs. Also new consumer CPUs often have really small internal caches.

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by quietsegfault on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:46PM (#48360176)

E5-2690s in my case.

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Re:A 10 year old Xeon is all you need (for 26B-A4B MTP Draft... by dangus on Monday June 01, 2026 @03:05PM (#48361186)

The Xeon processor in use by the OP of this article claims to have 20MB of Intel “Smart Cache.”

An Apple M4 chip in a Mac mini has 16MB on the P-cores and 4MB on the E-cores.

Depending on use case, AMD 3D V-cache at almost 100MB could also work out quite well.

So really, if you wait long enough, consumer chips end up with a pretty similar amount of cache.

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