Yes, you always have to know your problem well enough to make sure that you pick a benchmark which is measuring your bottleneck. Most people don’t have this kin

Yes, you always have to know your problem well enough to make sure that you pick a benchmark which is measuring your bottleneck. Most people don’t have this kind of perfect linear read activity but some do, and I think that if I did I’d probably be playing with the thread counts to see whether high-core machines were bottlenecking at some point where diminishing returns kicked in making it more cost-effective to get a second system rather than one really big one.