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Re:Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper? by FpUser on Saturday March 07, 2026 @06:49PM (#47292686)
>"High core count CPUs are only useful for specific workloads and should not be purchased as general purpose fast CPUs. Unless you’re doing specific tasks that scale by core count, a CPU with fewer cores and higher single threaded throughput would be faster for normal use cases."

I design multithreaded backends that benefit from as many cores as possible while not being a champion in a single core task. I think this is very common use case.

Re:Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper? by Aurornis on Saturday March 07, 2026 @07:11PM (#47292866)
Maybe I’m misunderstand what you’re saying, but designing multithreaded backends is not a very common use case.

Most computer use cases don’t involve software development at all.

Re:Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper? by FpUser on Saturday March 07, 2026 @09:59PM (#47293939)
Running those backends is very common. Just not in one's house / apartment