Up to a threshold more power is good (and that threshold varies based on what you are doing). I have two machines I use, the Desktop at work (Ryzen 1700/32GB)

Up to a threshold more power is good (and that threshold varies based on what you are doing). I have two machines I use, the Desktop at work (Ryzen 1700/32GB) and my laptop (T470P - i7-7700P/16GB (for now)) 95% of the time I don't notice the difference and even where there is one it's simply often not noticeably different. Take my incremental webpack build times with Typescript and some multi-thread hacking around, on my work desktop it takes ~545ms if I touch a bunch of stuff, same change on the Thinkpad is 620ms and on the Ryzen I give it more cores to play with. Hilariously (to me) some things on the Laptop run faster (Selenium tests and anything involving heavy disk I/O (Thinkpad is NVMe, Desktop is SATA SSD). The 5% cases are when I need to do something that really benefits from more and faster cores (like rip 60,000 hidpi multipage tiff's to multipage jpeg compressed PDF's - don't ask...) there the difference was huge (Ryzen finished in <50% of the time of the Thinkpad).