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Re:Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper? by barrkel on Saturday March 07, 2026 @05:56PM (#47292291)
As an owner of a 96 core 9995wx, nobody is buying one for desktop PC much less laptop level software.

To justify the investment you need to have tasks that scale out, or loads of heterogeneous tasks to support concurrently.

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Re:Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper? by ozfive on Saturday March 07, 2026 @06:08PM (#47292373)
What tasks are you running on your 96 core 9995wx?
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Re:Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper? by whateverboat on Saturday March 07, 2026 @06:19PM (#47292435)
LLVM developer compiling the full LLVM stack every 10 minutes.
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Re:Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper? by cozzyd on Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:49PM (#47293879)
Make -j97 presumably. Or MPI jobs.
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Re:Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper? by jeffbee on Saturday March 07, 2026 @06:08PM (#47292371)
Right, this is a car-priced CPU and the only rational reason to have one is that you can exploit it for profit. One pretty great reason would be giving it to your expensive software developers so they don't sit there waiting on compilers.
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Re:Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper? by dagmx on Sunday March 08, 2026 @11:43AM (#47298241)
I’ll push back and say there are people who buy it for desktop but primarily for workstation like uses such as simulations.

A ton of my FX artist friends have specced out their home rigs with one or something in its orbit.

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