Well the 2c/4t Ryzen APU will serve for a cheap rig I wonder if this would be an example of penny wise and pound foolish?What makes it too much? It's seems like a very ill defined question.
The real question is how much is enough?
For most of the mainstream it will likely be 4 cores for some time to come. Heck 2 cores will probably be enough for a significant portion, which is why AMD recently added the 2 core Ryzen segment.
Well the 2c/4t Ryzen APU will serve for a cheap rig I wonder if this would be an example of penny wise and pound foolish?
I'm of the thought that the minimum APU/CPU for a basic box should be at least have a 4c/4t one but however if one can build a basic Linux box for ~$300 or less, then it will do for someone who can't afford much. Something cheap to give a kid? Or for a kid to put together for a learning experience...I wouldn't recommend dual cores to my friends, but grannies Facebook computer really doesn't need more than 2C/4T.
When you think about it, the average web/productivity/media consumption of most people doesn't need more than that.
I paid attention to what taxes my computer. To make any kind of CPU usage dent, even in my ancient C2Q, it's still really only Gaming or Video encoding that taxes more than two cores. The rest of the time I could probably be a on 2C/4T machine and not notice the difference.
Obviously people with more specialized uses can use more cores, but it probably isn't most people.
Mainstream transcoding is handled by qsv/nvenc/vce it's many times faster than even high core count CPUs.Since the title says "mainstream desktop" which implies a web, office email box I choose lowest one of 6 cores. Even dual-core is enough for these tasks and if you include gaming and transcoding I would not call it mainstream, anymore.
Only gaming needs many cores and only because devs screw us over and reduce our cores into jaguar cores.
I paid attention to what taxes my computer. To make any kind of CPU usage dent, even in my ancient C2Q, it's still really only Gaming or Video encoding that taxes more than two cores. The rest of the time I could probably be a on 2C/4T machine and not notice the difference.
That's the gist of it,but no.He's basically saying that the developers do a poor job of porting (and optimizing) games to the PC from the consoles.
Assume a service time of the desktop from 2019 to 2024.....and by mainstream I mean sockets like LGA 1151 and AM4, etc.