[gjsman-1000]

If his application is running better on 8 instead of 32, that reeks to me of a dependency on single-core performance somewhere. An example of this would be Minecraft, which performs worse on heavily-multi core systems compared to a few fast cores (like M1).

[alpaca128]

Also Dwarf Fortress, which runs tons of simulations but is a single-threaded 32bit application, which makes multithreaded performance and RAM beyond ~2GB meaningless.