For stuff like path tracing you have to work very hard not to trash the caches, so you're often just waiting for memory. That's why such workloads gets a near

For stuff like path tracing you have to work very hard not to trash the caches, so you're often just waiting for memory. That's why such workloads gets a near linear scaling when using hyper-threads, unlike workloads like LLMs which are memory bandwidth bound.