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minus-squarequpada@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up12·3 months ago35% is the kind of numbers I used to have on servers at work, which often feature >2TB of RAM. (another similar percentage being the CPUs, 128 cores per socket doesn’t come cheap) Seeing those numbers for desktop hardware, “holy fuck” is about right.
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoFor data center shit, it’s probably up in the 70-80% range (unless you’re also running shitloads of H100s or A100s or whatever top of the line is these days)
35% is the kind of numbers I used to have on servers at work, which often feature >2TB of RAM.
(another similar percentage being the CPUs, 128 cores per socket doesn’t come cheap)
Seeing those numbers for desktop hardware, “holy fuck” is about right.
For data center shit, it’s probably up in the 70-80% range (unless you’re also running shitloads of H100s or A100s or whatever top of the line is these days)