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Re:AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chip... by rallycarre on Sunday February 19, 2017 @01:03PM (#13680941)
Not if you game, develop, or anything else where single thread is more important. If core count is the most important thing about a CPU then everyone would be buying bulldozer with its "8" cores.
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Re:AMD Ryzen 7 1800X Benchmarked – Giving Intel’s $1000 Chip... by floatboth on Monday February 20, 2017 @04:44AM (#13685902)
Bulldozer is just old at this point.

Why is single thread more important in development? Large project builds typically spawn as many compiler processes as there are CPU cores.

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