It remains important not to buy cores that you cannot use, especially if there are other constrained components that would have a larger performance impact. So

It remains important not to buy cores that you cannot use, especially if there are other constrained components that would have a larger performance impact. Sophie Wilson (creator of the ARM instruction set) spends some time on these issues, also stressing core throttling and shutdown due to heat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX4ZNfvw1cw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX4ZNfvw1cw