What are you using all your cores for?

[CuriousMike]

Beyond Cinebench measurebating?

What are some real world examples of work you are doing, either regularly on semi-regularly, where you are benefiting from moar cores?

An example for me would be a semi-regular need to have Lightroom batch export images.

 

[Fardringle]

This:
https://forums.anandtech.com/forums/distributed-computing.15/

 

[Crono]

Usually multitasking. Photoshop, browsing w/multiple browsers, mining (in the past: Primecoin mining, which is pure CPU), playing music, etc simultaneously, sometimes with a game running on another monitor or in Vive.

Occasionally Handbrake, Lightroom, and Premiere converting/exporting. And sometimes VMs (Linux, Windows), although not at the moment.

 

[CuriousMike]

I was under the impression that distributed computing was (much) more about the GPU than the CPU. Is that not true?

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

Running several concurrent applications that require cpu power.

Lots of programming projects for work and personal use that I can design to be multithreaded.

Visual Studio tools that are well multithreaded.

Compiling.

Playing browser games.


You don't realize how important several cores are until you don't have them. I had to disable all but one core to try and reproduce a suspected race condition. It was extremely painful even just to let the startup applications initialize.

 

[CuriousMike]

I found the lack of "compile large project" in test suites for Ryzen a surprise.
Is it webkit(?) that had been a benchmark in the past?

For sure Visual Studio is supremely well-threaded and has been for over a decade.

 

[Fardringle]

I was under the impression that distributed computing was (much) more about the GPU than the CPU. Is that not true?

It depends on the project. Some make very good use of GPU processing, but most projects only use the CPU.

 

[guachi]

Lots of handbrake for my collection of movies and recorded TV shows. Have my queue full of about 40 TV shows and it will still be running all day tomorrow. The R7 1700 is just so much faster I can actually pile up shows and it will finish in a reasonable time.

 

[krumme]

Bf1

 

[PhonakV30]

I have 2 game accounts and am playing 2 Rift at the same time.currently, Phenom II X4 925.also have 3 browsers ( Opera/Firefox/Vivaldi) and sometimes VirtualBox ( I have 2 ADSL Modem).I really need badly Ryzen 5 1600x.

 

[krumme]

Have an idea about making digital stabilization on all my home video. About 800gigs. Will take a gazillion years to finish even on a 8c i guess. Anyone recommend program that can do that on stellar quality and take batches?

Any idea in saving as h265 besides size?

 

[Nothingness]

make -jx

 

[NTMBK]

Compiling lots of C++ source files will happily use all 12 cores and 24 threads in my workstation.

 

[coffeemonster]

Handbrake mostly and a few other video and audio editing tools.
What used to take many hours and rendered my PC incapable of gaming for the duration now takes way less time and allows me to game while it's going.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I do enough AVC and HEVC encoding to keep my two maxed out HP Z800s (4x X5690) busy most of the time.
Sure, they're "just" Westmere cores, but we're still talking about 24c / 48t

Also have two Ryzen 7 1700s sitting in their boxes waiting for ... well the rest of the parts (mobo, RAM, etc.)

 

[DrMrLordX]

Given my current schedule . . . idling. *sob*

If it weren't for that I'd probably go back to doing faux HPC programming in Java because I'm crazy.

 

[dogen1]

Just about anything can max my 2 cores out lol

 

[DidelisDiskas]

I'm using them for looking at the system manager resource tab, and thinking how cool it is to have 16 f**king threads. At other times i'm using them for compiling and multitasking a bunch of various programs.

 

[moonbogg]

Does Rocketleague count? Seriously, I don't use my cores for anything. I still want 8 of them though. Heaviest use is BF1.

 

[r4sh1d]

Just finished building a ryzen 1700 pc for my wife's graduate school projects:

3ds max design
Autocad
Sketch up
Photoshop
Tons of Chrome tabs
Word + PowerPoint

I'm still running a 3570k:
Light gaming
Chrome tabs (50+)
Media server

 

[ZipSpeed]

World Community Grid which is predominantly a CPU project.

 

[anj2208]

Try rendering with keyshot....it will easily bring 16 thread to its knees


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[Yuriman]

Not a lot. Lately I browse the web and game lightly. Sometimes I do audio and video encoding, but it's once in a blue moon. I'd consider replacing my i5 with an i3 if/when I have major component failure in my current build - faster cores would benefit me more than more cores.

 

[Billb2]

Rendering is Solidworks. More is always better!

 

[w3rd]

*in his best Jersey accent*

I just turn them on... and let them eat the ch!t, I don't care..!
That what I do with my corez..!