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iJohnDoe
8 months ago
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Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core per...
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
8 months ago
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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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