On Monday, 27 March 2023 11:37:17 BST Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Compiles will speed up no matter what CPU you choose. But where else do you > need compute power? Video transcodes can be done in the background, and > there is also a limit to what parallelisation can achieve. Encryption is > also a non-issue for you. Even my 10 year old i3 in the NAS can encrypt over > 1 GB per second, IIRC.
Another heavy-load case is BOINC projects [1], which load all CPU threads, or a proportion of them, with floating-point calculations. I run 24 threads continuously on this Ryzen 9 and 9 threads on the older I7, except during Gentoo updates. I haven't looked into CPU comparisons for this kind of load, preferring to rely on workstations from a known high-performance system builder [2]. 1. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ - the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing. 2. https://armari.com/ . They specialise in systems for financial trading in the City of London, where (I'm told) milliseconds count, as well as reliability of course. -- Regards, Peter.
