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    How Many Cores and Threads Do We Need?

    Mar 31, 2020 2 minutes
    Jarred Walton

    There’s only one small problem: Most of us really don’t need this many cores or threads.

    Threadripper 3990X is a chip built with specific workloads in mind, and if you’re not using one of those workloads, performance can actually be worse than its “little brother” 3970X, which has half as many

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