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AMD Hardware Support?

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XG Firewall specifically states Intel hardware, but is that just a way of saying an x86/x64 bit platform? My UTM 9 is currently on an AMD socket FM2 ITX box, I would like to keep this hardware.



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    The only two reasons AFAIK to push for Intel Architecture is because of the Instruction sets for handling encryption are incredibly efficient and allow for a lot of offloading of the encryption stuff away from main processing (If the processor has the AES instruction set). The other is that Intel is reputably better than AMD for Single Threaded Processing.

    This is coming from a person who's been running AMD since as far back as my memory stretches and the only piece of Intel hardware to grace my home with it's presence is a Zotac Zbox running my UTM v9. The vast majority of functions used by Sophos ASG/XG are single threaded and very processor intensive. Take Intrusion Prevention for instance, that process alone can wipe out an entire core just on it's own and does not distribute it's functions across multiple threads. Because of this, AMD cannot shine because it's built from the ground up for a multi-thread architecture.

    AMD is compatible with ASG/XG, it's just not as good as Intel in this scenario else I would have built an FX-8350 mITX UTM by now.
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    The only two reasons AFAIK to push for Intel Architecture is because of the Instruction sets for handling encryption are incredibly efficient and allow for a lot of offloading of the encryption stuff away from main processing (If the processor has the AES instruction set). The other is that Intel is reputably better than AMD for Single Threaded Processing.

    This is coming from a person who's been running AMD since as far back as my memory stretches and the only piece of Intel hardware to grace my home with it's presence is a Zotac Zbox running my UTM v9. The vast majority of functions used by Sophos ASG/XG are single threaded and very processor intensive. Take Intrusion Prevention for instance, that process alone can wipe out an entire core just on it's own and does not distribute it's functions across multiple threads. Because of this, AMD cannot shine because it's built from the ground up for a multi-thread architecture.

    AMD is compatible with ASG/XG, it's just not as good as Intel in this scenario else I would have built an FX-8350 mITX UTM by now.
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