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Probably (it widely depends), it's very useful to increase core counts to about 8 cores in most cases. After that, the actual practical returns are greatly diminished. So, moving from 8 to 16 grants only 15-20% better performance, etc.
I would much rather take 8 cores with Zen 5 performance per clock and frequency of 8 GHz rather than 128 cores with Zen 1 performance per clock and (all-core) frequency of 3.8 GHz. In a vast majority of workloads, the former would outperform the latter.
Zen 5 performance per clock and frequency of 8 GHz
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Gamer checking in. Single core performance is very important as games are not quite yet capable of taking advantage of say 12 cores compared to 6 higher performing cores.
It’s why the 5600x3d performs so closely to the 5800x3d while gaming despite it being a 6 core vs 8 core comparison. We encountered something similar a decade ago with i5 vs i7 for gaming games we’re not capable of taking full advantage of hyperthreading. But as time went on the gap between the two widened.