On: Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing

[iJohnDoe]

Based on my limited knowledge. Most applications aren’t great at using all cores, so single-core performance is really important most of the time.

[MBCook → iJohnDoe]

Yep. And even if they can use multiple threads, faster single threaded performance means each of those multiple threads gets done faster.

There’s a reason consumer CPUs aren’t slower with 1024 cores instead.