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Having a lot of cores are best used when running virtual machines, handling lots of connections, servicing a large database. The average OS is running 1000 thre
by water8 4y ago
Having a lot of cores are best used when running virtual machines, handling lots of connections, servicing a large database. The average OS is running 1000 threads at any given time which are all being time sliced to share the same say 40 cores. what you make up in single thread clock speed you lose in time waiting between context switching. The place where single-core performance really excels is Javasript and web browsing. But these machines can process a hell of a lot more data if they’re used properly
- DCKing 4y agoYeah I'm not saying that many cores aren't useful for workstation workloads, but nearly everyone still shouldn't buy these for their primary workstation. If you specifically need to run a lot of VMs or run massively parallel computation, most folks still would probably be better off getting a homelab server to run them instead of running them from your workstation directly.
- water8 4y agoAgreed personally I find a 5 GHz processor much snappier than a computer with 2.5ghz clock speeds. But that’s also part of DDR4 and other improvements between now and then. It’s not like we’re comparing them to essentially 5/6 generation intel core i7 chips