How many cores is too many cores?

two

one

why must there even be cores?

>>55812594
5318008

Bill Gates
"640K (RAM) ought to be enough for anybody"

I say how many can you use??

>>55812594
>he fell for the core meme

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

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More the merrier

>>55812594
For home users?
When the TDP of the higher core count requires that you lower clock rates significantly.
So 6 cores.

>>55815547
5820k is rated as 140tdp but in reality it can hit 3.8GHz before reaching it's listed TDP. I have mine at 4.4GHz though, which can pull ~180-200w

>>55815601
this
it's why the i7 6700k is still has the best IPC and is best for gaymen

>>55812626
he never said that, nigger

>>55815626
That's why it doesn't beat an i5 in any gaming benchmark and often performs slightly right?

>>55816160
only in some games because hyperthreading, turn it off and it's literally just a higher binned i5.

AMD A10-7800 Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G reporting.
comfy.

The 30 billion cores Amemed put on their cpus

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>>55816106

Anything more than 4

About tree fiddy

>>55816685
all computer resources spend the vast majority of their time unused

*unless you're on a server, a renderfarm or mining buttcoins

>>55812594
games and photo/audio productivity: 4
video editing, virtualization and high-end productivity: 6~8
after Effects, 3D rendering and server use: go crazy

>>55812594
what you need: SIMD registers
what you get: more cores
welcome to marketing 101

>>55812626
I wish children would stop taking this quote out of context or even thinking it applies to modern technology

640k wasn't even enough for anything at the time, it was nothing like now where you can go out and buy as much goddamn RAM as you want and it will be able to hold more than any home user would ever comprehend to throw at it with current use cases the way they are

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this as 1280000 cores

>>55812626
>still sprouting that bullshit quote
Freetards, sirs.

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>>55812594
More cores can only help so much. If what your program is doing can't be heavily parallelized, you won't see much benefit from more cores.
>>55816685
Okay, now render some 4K video and show me your CPU usage.

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Over 6 is overkill for home use.

>>55812626

Andy Tanenbaum
Date: 30 Jan 92 13:44:34 GMT

"...5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5."

>>55817621
is that metal gear