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Old 30th November 2019, 20:28   #29017  |  Link
SquallMX
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Originally Posted by jdobbs View Post
An 8 core CPU will likely complete faster than a 4 core -- but not twice as fast. That's not how multiprocessing works.
Sometimes the gains are even bigger. Going from an 8 core Ryzen 1700x to a 12 core Ryzen 3900 I got a 2X speed boost with only 50% more cores, something to do with optimizations for AVX instruction sets.
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