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Single Threaded Performance vs Multi Threaded Performance; Which is more important in 2023? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

For gaming: single threaded performance is usually better to prioritize.

For everyday use (web browsers, etc): both, but generally prioritize single threaded performance first. Multithreaded performance is usually already more than good enough on modern chips that have fast single threaded performance.

For heavier workflows: multithreaded performance is usually better to prioritize (particularly on workloads that inherently use a lot of threads). Single threaded performance still matters, but most modern CPUs are good enough on this front.