Passmark I5-8500t

[Quinton Hebenstreit]

Iwant to move our Bedrock world to a self hosted server. I found a Thinkcentre M920q tiny which have the i5 8500t CPU, but it is hard for me to find out if this is enough for hosting a bedrock world for 5 people.

Can anybody help me figure out how much processing power is needed. I see that i5-8500t score 2086 on single thread performance listed at cpubenchmark.net, but I'm not sure if this is good enough. Does anybody know of recommended benchmark for hosting Bedrock server or maybe someone have any experience running bedrock with CPU scoring around the same as the i5 8500t?

Bedrock doesn't have "mods" (only plugins/data packs/whatever Mojang calls them), and shaders and RTX are client-side only (it only matters if you are planning to run a client and server on the same computer, which is more or less the same as running a singleplayer client, plus additional resources per additional player, at least on Java, which runs on an internal server in singleplayer, not sure about Bedrock).

That said, according to Minecraft.net the recommended system requirements for the Windows 10 Edition (Bedrock) includes a i7-6500U or A8-6600K, both of which are rated lower than a i5-8500T in all aspects (in many cases, by more than half, don't be fooled by the lower clock as newer generation CPUs have better performance. I have no idea how well Bedrock takes advantage of multiple cores but Java multithreads world generation, lighting, mob AI, and dimensions, among others, so the overall rating should also be a good comparison):

-i7-6500U-vs-AMD-A8-6600K-APU-vs-Intel-i5-8500T/2607vs1946vs3231

TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.

TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.

Why do I still play in 1.6.4?

Mortyboy's CPU has comparable single threaded performance to a 10th generation i3, and is a 6 core. So it should have no problems with the bedrock server software, especially with 16gb of RAM which gives a lot of leeway for high render distances as well as lots of active players.

It's mostly just going to be my family using my server (haven't organized any connections with my friends yet). It's maybe a bit late now (and I can simply use the excuse that it leaves headroom for other stuff). But I want to know so I can make the best CPU and overall build options next time.

Are you going to be just streaming the media internally inside your house, or do you have plans to run something like Plex? If its just for internal use, it will be fine, however if you plan on running Plex check out the requirements below. You need to keep some CPU for unRAID as well.

The passmark score for your CPU is 11650

Here are the requirements for a single stream for Plex

I plan to use Jellyfin for my media server software of choice. It will be internally mostly (depends if I decide to go out or I decide to give access to someone else outside the house). The CPU is just barely below the 4K SDR requirement (I might get away with it without Hardware Acceleration for one stream). But looks like I'll mostly have to use Hardware Acceleration.

The i5 8400 has an iGPU that supports QuickSync Video. Both Plex and Emby (and I assume Jellyfin since it is a fork of Emby) support iGPU for hardware acceleration. If Jellyfin supports a QSV-enabled iGPU then the CPU does not have to be terribly powerful unless you will also be running a lot of dockers, VMs, etc. I know many Plex/Emby users are getting good hardware transcoding for 2-4 streams with Pentium/i3 processors. This is mostly for remote/mobile clients. Your media, if encoded properly, should direct stream locally without transcoding with a decent client.

The i5 8400 has an iGPU that supports QuickSync Video. Both Plex and Emby (and I assume Jellyfin since it is a fork of Emby) support iGPU for hardware acceleration. If Jellyfin suport QSV-enabled iGPU then the CPU does not have to be terribly powerful unless you will also be running a lot of dockers, VMs, etc. I know many Plex/Emby users are getting good hardware transcoding for 2-4 streams with Pentium/i3 processors. This is mostly for remote/mobile clients. Your media, if encoded properly, should direct stream locally without transcoding with a decent client.

I heard an interesting analogy recently. In human terms the cores are mouths and the thread are the hands that feed the mouths. If your job is to eat a lot, you need more mouths to process the food. The hands just to keep the mouths busy.

Well I was really focused on the subject line and not the intent of the question. The answer still seems to be the i5-8500. If you look at the passmark for those two CPUs the i5 still leads over the i7.

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