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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.


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.




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