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I mean, how silly would you have to be to buy a 32 core/64 thread processor if single threaded performance was a consideration at all. There is obviously going
by starky 6y ago
I mean, how silly would you have to be to buy a 32 core/64 thread processor if single threaded performance was a consideration at all. There is obviously going to be some sort of tradeoff in single core performance to obtain that density of cores.
- phonon 6y ago3970X has a maximum single core turbo of 4.5GHz, with a similar/better IPC than Skylake. You're not missing much at all. The tradeoff only exists when thermally limited when multiple cores are running, but given how many more cores there are in the first place, you are still way ahead.
- mattbillenstein 6y agoPassmark numbers seem to say -15.5% - but I guess that's maybe not that big of a deal in most things. I use my desktop for playing games, so having 4-8 cores is enough, I'd much rather have fast cores for things that don't parallelize well. That being said, I am pushing a pretty old cpu - i7-4770k - and I haven't been able to convince myself to spend the money on the upgrade since I'm down ~32% from the best thing you can get considering single thread perf. Maybe the next round of cpus - Zen 3 et al. I'll be doing nvme pcie-4.0 ssd as well in the next build which should give a big boost over the sata ssd I'm using now.