Quote from: RobertJasiek on February 19, 2022, 21:45:53You can get something like G6900 for ~50 USD/EUR. Which comes close to Ryzen 3600's CB R23 single core score. Ten years ago you didn't get more cores/threads for that money.
Cinebench R15 single thread 93+ on Core i is good enough for light multi-tasking, although one notices that it is not the fastest. A decade ago, such a CPU cost €50, nowadays it is closer to €100.
Quote from: rs on February 19, 2022, 20:44:14Even small budget CPUs have more than enough single core performance for your daily tasks.
Quote from: Tristan Jakob-Hoff on February 19, 2022, 11:30:21But you can process the tracks in parallel. Image, video or audio processing are actually very good examples of the importance of a good multicore design. Yes, in my opinion single core performance is still important. But it's not that important anymore as 20 years ago or so. Even small budget CPUs have more than enough single core performance for your daily tasks. Multicore performance and efficiency is equally important nowadays.
To those asking why single core performance is important, take music and audio work for example. Every audio plugin on a track is processed in sequence, not in parallel, and as a result all the necessary number crunching has to take place on a single core. So for music production, single core speeds are the number one consideration in many use cases.