2x core count hardly ever offers anywhere near a 100% performance gain, even across Intel's lineup [1]. Very few workloads are that parallelizeable, and almost

2x core count hardly ever offers anywhere near a 100% performance gain, even across Intel's lineup [1]. Very few workloads are that parallelizeable, and almost everything (from the program to the OS to the CPU itself) introduces some form of overhead when running in parallel. [1] https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Core-i9-7960X-vs-Intel-Core-i7-7820X/3096vs3038 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-Core-i9-7960X-vs-...