For much of the 2010s, we were stuck with mainly dual-core and quad-core CPUs in PCs. However the arrival of Ryzen shook the PC industry, causing a rapid increase in core counts. At the time, there was fervent discussion on this matter, with many questioning if more cores were worth it, and how many cores are more than enough?
So how do things stand today? The latest Intel and AMD consumer processors top out at 24 and 16 cores respectively. What extent of modern software can take advantage of all those cores? What modern workloads are still bottlenecked by single threaded performance?
And just in case the “experts” here crawls out of their swamp holes with the default excuses from way back when AMD single thread performance was bad, just because a game uses 2-3 cores worth of CPU does not make it not single thread limited. IN the modern proliferation of cores where you get them by the dozens, you are NEVER limited my MP throughput but always by the ST performance on the limiting critical thread.