You can purchase a server rack holder for Mac minis, which can pack 2 Mac minis in 1U of Server Space.īecause of the following reasons above, I think that the Mac mini with M1 chip has been a significantly overlooked choice for Minecraft Servers. Whereas, parts for self-building are currently fairly hard to obtain.
The Mac mini can be actually purchased at MSRP, today, and contains everything you need to actually use the system. Makes sense considering the same chip is in a fanless laptop. The Mac mini has fans that are, according to reviews and experience, almost inaudible. The Mac mini had an average power draw of 26.5W according to AnandTech. The newly launched 11th Gen Intel i9-11900K? 3,604, 150 points less. For a game that cares about single-threaded performance, the M1 has the highest single-thread performance of any CPU on the market, at all. Starts at $699 for the 8GB RAM model, or $899 for the 16GB RAM model. The Ryzen 9 5950X, by the same benchmark, gets 3,499 in single-thread and an amazing 46,135 in multicore - but considering how Minecraft doesn't care for multi-core, we're really paying for the single-core performance. The i9-9900K is a few years old now though. In CPU Benchmark by PassMark Software, just as a frame of reference, the i9-9900K scores 2,974 in the critical single-thread performance and 18,862 in the multi-core score.
This can also be seen with 2B2T, which runs on a Core i9-9900K and not, say, a Xeon Workstation. This is why high-end SMP servers use Core i9s and Ryzen 9s instead of the typical server chips like Xeons, Epycs, or even Threadrippers. It's well-known that Minecraft Java Edition Servers care much more about Single-Threaded Performance than Multi-Threaded. I wanted to share some research I've been doing and inquire if the community has done any further research on this, because I couldn't find much research on this subject.
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