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rallycarre on Feb 19, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $10...

Not if you game, develop, or anything else where single thread is more important. If core count is the most important thing about a CPU then everyone would be buying bulldozer with its "8" cores.

floatboth on Feb 20, 2017 [–]

Bulldozer is just old at this point.

Why is single thread more important in development? Large project builds typically spawn as many compiler processes as there are CPU cores.

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