Thank you for someone that understands the issue! Between the centralized I/O die solving the NUMA issue and standardizing inter-die latencies (more of a stall/stale data issue) with the new Windows scheduler in Win 1903 (requires an unreleased chipset driver to enable), the problem should be remedied in part for the…

Alex, seriously? Are you a tech writer? We host grids with 15+k cores. Don’t you think a 64 core CPU would be a great way to scale down DC space?

Zen 2 is moving 6-12 cores into the mainstream. If x number of cores become the norm, developers will start coding for it. When most people are running dual and quad core cpus, why bother investing time in writing for higher thread counts?

Since the Mac Pro announcement I’m surprised the number of people who live in a bubble and assume all computers are for leisure. These are literally work machines where time is money; they pay for themselves in probably a month. 

The biggest issue was actually with the Windows scheduler, which did not understand the specific characteristics of these particular model Threadrippers. Linux handled that much smoother I hear, as did Windows if you manually pegged tasks to specific cores - which is a chore.

It will run all the Crysis titles...at the same time.

Joining plenty of voices already...but yea, I’ll take more cores. More cores, more buckets for rendering, less time wasted watching every YouTube video...and by extension, more opportunities for people to ask for revisions. Because hey, it rendered so fast!

I feel like “To Many Cores” might be the modern equivalent of Bill Gates “64k of RAM out to be more then enough...” 

Yeah, but will it run Crysis?

Alex remember that time you wrote an article that wrongly presupposed that you can have too many cores

erm... shouldn’t the first link in the text lead to an article instead of a random gif hosted on tumblr?

You can never have enough cores....   

Right? Or “640K should be enough for anybody” or “there is a world market for maybe 5 computers.”

I mean, maybe we’ll all have 64-core chips in our phones in 5 years.  Or in our underwear or something.  Who knows?

This is what happens when you hire product designers from Gillette.

I remember when a 1GB HD was insanely large, not to mention how many times x  amount of RAM was ‘way too much’.

Too much hair, too much money, too many friends...., no such thing.  Too many cores is up there.

Also "no one needs this" is inherently a flawed argument. This is how technology works. This is no different than people saying "no one needs a terabyte of storage" in the early 2000s

Uhh is this a complaint?

Servers, especially those running multiple VMs, can make use of the extra cores. Even video production is likely overkill. I believe you’ll benefit more from extra RAM for video.