Single Core vs Multi Core - Which is more important? A CPU primer.

#CPU #Intel #AMD
Is it better to go for a processor with screaming single core performance, or will you get more performance from having more cores?

Navigating the CPU market minefield can be tricky, especially if you don't know your hyper-threading from your cache RAM... but hopefully this CPU primer will help you understand some of the concepts and make a sensible choice.

Either that, or you will fall asleep. Sleep can be good, no?

[MDAsif-jgtg]

This video deserves more likes... it was straight to the point, brief and simple..

[Composercleo]

Never truly understood this... Great information!Glad I subbed and turned on my notifications!!

[REALSlutHunter]

0:39 Ok i already like this video and this guy ! Because he's honest. You have my upvote Sir :)

[defaultroute]

Another beautifully executed video. Subscribed. My only regret is I didn't sub sooner. Thanks for your efforts and time creating and editing your publications.

[jamescrowley]

Your channel is going to blow up - mark my words. When you have 100, 0000 to 200, 000 subscribers I’ll say told ya so. Great content and info, keep up the stellar work and content.

[Technocrat.]

Hertz used to be important, for single or dual core. But the amount of cores and threads are just as important, Example, 1 man, shovelling sand, doing 30 shovels a min VS 10 men shovelling 20 shovels a min, results in 30 for single man at 30, vs 200 for 10 men at lower speed. Just not all programs utilize all cores and threads, there is where Hertz comes to forefront.
Then there is bit size, eg, 32 bit to 64 bit, then to 128 bit, if the new cpu's can run at same speed taking bigger chunks of data, makes for greater performance.


Thanks for video. Keep them up.

[maiba]

Excellent video! I want to see your channel grow. I'm always trying to explain to my friends why a new processor, like the I3-1000NG4, outperforms the I5-8210Y. They tend to believe what matters is the number after the letter or the GHz.

[Sven.Jeschke]

Single core performance is quite important for me. I play guitar through AU plug-ins in Logic Pro X, and when I enable input monitoring Logic only uses 1 thread for the channel. One single thread has to have sufficient power to run all plug-ins on that channel (usually an amp sim, an IR loader, EQ, compression, sometimes delay or other effects).

[donaldaribam]

The Ferrari & Bus analogy was Ub3r!

[DeputyNordburg]

Thanks for making this series. My 2009 Mac pro just died, and I've decided to buy a 2013. It's in the mail now, so I am looking at options. I will most like stay with the 4 core as I'm mostly doing non-pro aps (iMovie, and iPhoto) aside from Photoshop. I will add a larger SSD, and more RAM, probably 32GB.  
I always thought the 12GB RAM model was funny. People were always selling the 4TB sticks on ebay for next to nothing and you could go 12 to 16GB for like $10.
Alos, someone should have made a HD enclosure to site under this and look right. A 5 drive NAS is about the right size. But someone could have been artistic and made round one for that Cray Supercomputer look.
Cheers!

[afiqfikridaud]

7:21 Apple M1: let me introduce myself

[StreetSmrtNtrmt]

nice explanation with perfectly matching pics

[TJBiasong]

Well explained! Never knew what these terms are about!

[alagappannagappan]

Superb explanation bro... we are grateful for that

[sureshkumargondi]

Great explanation 👍 keep up the great work. Keep it coming...

[adamalahi]

The guy predicted the arrival of M1 chips at the end.

[AutodidactEngineer]

I'd rather have 4x 2ghz cores than 1x 8Ghz
The rule of thumb goes, two persons will outperform even the toughest person!
2 or more is always better espicially with so many apps running in the backgtound these days, 1 core would be overwhelmed!

[robertoferrarini]

Thanks, great and very clear video. I'm doing non professional music production in a home studio, live recosrding, mic & mastering, etc. I plan to upgrade my laptop (Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10210U CPU @ 1.60GHz 2.11 GHz RAM 20Gb), not only for the characteristics but caise I need a 17" screen. I've been to a computer shop but they told me that modern multicore are anyway much better than single core, not many in production actually. Question: how can I find a single core pc laptop being this info often hidden? tks

[Technocrat.]

I'd like for someone to do a top model review of Trashcan mac, Top core and video cards the D700, I'd like to own one my self, but would need to be top model as i do game as well. I like the Look of it more than new mac pro 2019. Besides you can get the top model for half of cost of base model on 2019.

[skenox]

Hey first of all thank you for the great explanation, so for Video editing it is better to have a better single core CPU? Do you think a AMD Ryzen 5 5600x will do a better job than the AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (my current CPU, with lots of preview issues in After Effects)?

Not sure what I want to buy, maybe you have a recommendation