I’m looking at some old Intel and Pentium CPUs that are in a NUC. Are cores and max clock speed the only things that matter? Would a Pentium be good enough to run Immich? I have a i7-4790, and the NUCs I’m looking at range from a Pentium J5005 to a i3-1115G4. I do run Docker, does that affect anything?
Look at benchmarks.
Single or multi-core performance will matter more depending on your workload.
Docker doesn’t make a difference. Containers run natively and with no emulation.
Buy a used tiny/mini/micro from eBay. Best bang for buck and good efficiency. I got a Dell with a 9500T for $110.
I think more important is compute per watt and idle power consumption than raw max compute power.
Look at generation first. Look at ram speed, clock speed, number of cores and cache after checking the generation
