those 12 core/8 core amd cpus

[Golf1.6]

Read the amd vs intel thread and got me thinking, amd have stopped the high end gaming market and focused on energy efficient office computer market for applications etc.

How do the 12 core amd cpus fare against say an intel i5 2500k cpu for multi tasking on say adobe photoshop, fireworks, 24 tab chrome, 15 tab forefox, tv running on tvcatchup.co.uk etc.

 

[Golf1.6]

the problem is if the cpu is intended for servers than presumably the socket and motherboard will be built for servers so they might not have a PCIE graphics slot and not even be atx form factor.

Also the PC operating system may not be optimised to distribute the processing between all the cores correctly compared to a server OS which would.

 

[Golf1.6]

That was some time ago though, Didn't it come close to matching the mainstream cpu's of the day core for core.

comparing core for core is a bad metric when the desktop cpu only has 4 cores and server cpu has 12 cores.

 

[Golf1.6]

If the software is designed to use multiple cores and run operations simultaneously, the 12 core chip will thrash the quad core chip.

AMD make some excellent gaming chips. The desktop 8 cores look very promising when it comes to gaming. For anything that makes proper use of the new API's an AMD rig will probably make a lot more sense than an Intel.

tht's the crux of the matter. windows 10 and any other traditional desktop OS, let alone professional editing suits do not utilise cores beyond 4 cores. Because 4 cores is a current norm,

as uscool points out his 32 core machine only utilised 4/5 cores. the os would rather exhust the 4/5 cores and hit a computing bottleneck and then slow down than use the other cores.