[barrkel]

As an owner of a 96 core 9995wx, nobody is buying one for desktop PC much less laptop level software.

To justify the investment you need to have tasks that scale out, or loads of heterogeneous tasks to support concurrently.

[ozfive]

What tasks are you running on your 96 core 9995wx?

[whateverboat]

LLVM developer compiling the full LLVM stack every 10 minutes.

[cozzyd]

Make -j97 presumably. Or MPI jobs.

[jeffbee]

Right, this is a car-priced CPU and the only rational reason to have one is that you can exploit it for profit. One pretty great reason would be giving it to your expensive software developers so they don't sit there waiting on compilers.

[dagmx]

I’ll push back and say there are people who buy it for desktop but primarily for workstation like uses such as simulations.

A ton of my FX artist friends have specced out their home rigs with one or something in its orbit.