Re:AMD Lists Threadripper 3000 CPU with 32 Cores, Possible N...
by rbanffy on Friday October 18, 2019 @07:39AM
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> good core count for development workstation
As many as you can afford.
The reasoning is that your code, when it's ready and in production, will run on machines with more cores than they had available last year. If your code can now face its future runtime environment, then you'll have fewer surprises later.
A second reason is that machines with many cores degrade more gracefully under high load. You may be compiling across a dozen cores, but you'll still be able to search Stack Overflow or answer Gmail.
You may also consider going for higher memory bandwidth. 8x8GB DIMMs is better than 2x32GB ones.
As many as you can afford.
The reasoning is that your code, when it's ready and in production, will run on machines with more cores than they had available last year. If your code can now face its future runtime environment, then you'll have fewer surprises later.
A second reason is that machines with many cores degrade more gracefully under high load. You may be compiling across a dozen cores, but you'll still be able to search Stack Overflow or answer Gmail.
You may also consider going for higher memory bandwidth. 8x8GB DIMMs is better than 2x32GB ones.