If you are running engineering jobs (HPC) like electrical simulation for chip design the only two thingd you care about are the CPU clock speed and memory RW speed.
It's unfortunate that we can only have 16 core CPUs running at 5+ GHz. I would have loved to have a 32 or 64 core Ryzen 9. The software we use charge per core used, so 30% less performance is that much extra cost, which is easily an order of magnitude higher than a flagship server CPU. These licenses cost millions per year for couple 16 core seats.
So, at the end, CPU speed is determining how fast abd economically chips are developed.
>These licenses cost millions per year for couple 16 core seats
The ROI on hiring a professional overclocker to build, tune and test a workstation is probably at least break even. As long as the right checksums are in place, extreme OC is just a business writeoff.
It's unfortunate that we can only have 16 core CPUs running at 5+ GHz. I would have loved to have a 32 or 64 core Ryzen 9. The software we use charge per core used, so 30% less performance is that much extra cost, which is easily an order of magnitude higher than a flagship server CPU. These licenses cost millions per year for couple 16 core seats.
So, at the end, CPU speed is determining how fast abd economically chips are developed.
The ROI on hiring a professional overclocker to build, tune and test a workstation is probably at least break even. As long as the right checksums are in place, extreme OC is just a business writeoff.