For much of the 2010s, we were stuck with mainly dual-core and quad-core CPUs in PCs. However the arrival of Ryzen shook the PC industry, causing a rapid increase in core counts. At the time, there was fervent discussion on this matter, with many questioning if more cores were worth it, and how many cores are more than enough?

So how do things stand today? The latest Intel and AMD consumer processors top out at 24 and 16 cores respectively. What extent of modern software can take advantage of all those cores? What modern workloads are still bottlenecked by single threaded performance?

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    10 months ago

    Depends on what you are doing but I think as a general do it all the 7800X3D is pretty good, good single-core and multi-core performance. If you want to do some productivity is good at that and it’s greaet for gaming on. If you want to do productivity only the Intel i9 is pretty good but the new Threadrippers are even better but if you just want to game the 7800X3D is going to be better for that and it’s really efficient in power.