Hello,
I am researching the best option for me on a new MacPro7,1.
80% Of my workload is single threaded tasks.
20% Will be multiple Virtual Machines. For that I want as many cores as possible.
I had been under the impression that the higher core count CPUs would have worse single threaded performance. The Base clock specs go steadily down as the core count goes up. Although Max Turbo is the same for all above 8 cores.
Looking at Geekbench results, I expected to see a decrease in Single Core performance as the Core Count climbed. Instead the Geekbench results show a small but steady INCREASE in Single Core performance.
So if I am interpreting Geekbench is correctly, there should be no down side to getting a high core count CPU for an 80% single threaded scenario. Or am I missing something...or a couple of things?
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I am researching the best option for me on a new MacPro7,1.
80% Of my workload is single threaded tasks.
20% Will be multiple Virtual Machines. For that I want as many cores as possible.
I had been under the impression that the higher core count CPUs would have worse single threaded performance. The Base clock specs go steadily down as the core count goes up. Although Max Turbo is the same for all above 8 cores.
Looking at Geekbench results, I expected to see a decrease in Single Core performance as the Core Count climbed. Instead the Geekbench results show a small but steady INCREASE in Single Core performance.
So if I am interpreting Geekbench is correctly, there should be no down side to getting a high core count CPU for an 80% single threaded scenario. Or am I missing something...or a couple of things?
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