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Re:64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review by AstralStorm on Friday February 07, 2020 @11:46AM (#22267809)
It's still much faster than any Core 2. It's faster than 2 cores of Sandy Bridge on my older 2950x, so I'd expect 39z0x to be even faster, probably beating older Skylake.
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Re:64 Core Threadripper 3990X CPU Review by kadoban on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:34PM (#22269113)
Yeah, I'm sure it's going to depend a lot on workload. If each one is in some crazy tight loop, CPU bound without using much working set of memory at all, it should be faster.

Or more realistically if they're usual VMs and idle the vast majority of the time, that should be faster too.

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