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Would it not make more sense to compare the price of a 6 core and 12 thread intel chip with a 6 core and 12 thread ryzen like the 1600X? EDIT: ah the 1600X onl

• chx 9y ago
  No, core count is meaningless. What matters in most desktop cases is price per performance , especially price per performance in your specific use (what's your percentage of single thread vs multi thread work, mostly). In a server scenario often performance per watt will be king. If Ryzen can deliver a similar Cinebench score to a CPU hundreds and hundreds dollars more expensive then they have a something. Whether they do that by occult magic or squeezing more cores/threads in, doesn't matter to the end user.