QOTW: How many cores/threads does your desktop CPU have?

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

4k/8t.

4000 cores is a "tad" high - u own a supercomputer or something??

[smargh]

10/10. HT is off. Xeon E5-2680v2 in a HP Z820 which (almost) matches most of Intel's new CPUs...

.... except in single threaded workloads. Doing anything single-threaded is *painful*, for example most Python scripts, editing massive text documents etc. I've previously added a second CPU, but Elite: Dangerous only uses up to 10 cores anyway, so there's no point. Watching single-threaded apps use 10% CPU is already incredibly depressing; I've watched it at just a few % before with the other CPU and HT turned on, which is just soul destroying - watching TrustedInstaller.exe using just 2.5%.... uuuungh.

[Stuen4y]

4/8 3770k@4.5GHz. More than plenty for pretty much anything I do.

[marcoachaves]

4c/8t Core i7 6700k

[pastymuncher]

I have a overclocked 4670k so 4 cores which is more than enough for my uses. What I would like is a lot more single core performance. The main game I play is mostly a single threaded and this is severely bottlenecking my gpu which at times is only showing a pathetic 44% load while 1 core of my cpu is at 100% load.

[deejayburnout]

A 6 core FX chip. Fine just now. No need for anything else just now.

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[Potbellieddwarf]

I have an i7-5930K with 6 cores and 12 threads.
The wife has an i7-6900K with 8 cores and 16 threads.

[malfunction]

6 cores / 12 threads in my main desktop PC

6 cores / 12 threads in my HTPC / gaming PC

12 cores / 24 threads in my ESXi server

All powered by old S1366 Xeons bought 2nd hand via eBay. The desktop and HTPC each have one overclocked L5639 and the ESXi server has 2 stock clocked X5670s. The original intention was to swap the L5639s for the X5670s but I can't get the heatsink off the motherboard in my HTPC (at least not without using enough force to break something) as the screw threads are locked.


And for comparison purposes / giggles:

My desktop PC vs the Ryzen 1800X at stock and overclocked to 4.1GHz, where my PC is running a Xeon L5639 overclocked to 3.6GHz base, 4.0GHz turbo (single thread turbo only)

	Xeon L5639 3.6 to 4.0GHz	Ryzen 1800X stock	Ryzen 1800X 4.1GHz
HeXus PiFast (10M)	21.49	20.6	20.2
wPrime 2.1 (1024M)	156.3	103.3	N/A
Cinebench R15	840	1,614	1,749

I'm surprised how close the PiFast result is and wPrime is more or less fine given I'm 2 cores / 4 threads down (with 7 year older tech!) as a theoretical 6 core Ryzen would complete in 137.7 seconds (103.3 / .75 = 137.73' seconds). Cinebench is a bit painful but I'm guessing it can make use of newer instructions that my Xeon just doesn't have - a theoretical 1800X would still score 1,210 in CB.

Edit: Cinebench up from 768 to 840 with a boost in uncore speed (768 felt a bit too slow judging by other results on the net) - PiFast and wPrime down by half a second (odd it didn't have a bigger effect on wPrime).

[decends]

Currently rocking my I7 4790k 4c/8t CPU. It runs my games like a champ currently, i will wait for Zen+ to see if i should upgrade.

[Rubarb]

2 cores 2 threads here, yep G3258 still doing the job tho

[Ferral]

I have an i7 4790k so 4 cores and 8 threads, got it last year and it is an awesome CPU, wont need to upgrade for a while. Maybe a little extra ram up to 16Gb from 8 (maybe even 12Gb would suffice for 1080p gaming) and possibly a new graphics card later this year.

[eviling]

4 cores, 8 threads.

It is generally sufficient for me.
There are rare times when it feels like a few more cores wouldnt hurt, though that could perhaps be fixed by faster RAM also. But it happens too rare atm to be annoyed about.

[elites2012]

funny how so many think threads are cores. threads are nothing more than an assembly line for the core it is allocated to. has anyone ever tried to shutdown all cores but two? then tax them? intel has so many people fooled just like apple.

[Spreadie]

4c/8t Core i7 6700k

This.

[Shane74]

5960X 8 cores 16 threads

[FRISH]

4 core 4 thread 3570k. It's served me quite well.