Many applications are good for 2-4 threads. The extra cores allow you to run multiple applications under high load concurrently.

However, for gaming, most games still want 2 or so really high clocked cores vs many others. They just haven't been written to take advantage of the extra cores really.

Then there are the workhorse applications those are fully multithreaded and the high core counts really show their stuff


On Fri, May 13, 2022 at 10:24 AM Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:


It is my understanding that current CPU core speed has been consistent
for a while, and the number of course are increasing.

I assume this is making the CPUs with more core look more powerful.

A assume that most software only uses one core?  And therefore older
cores are just as powerful?

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