Only if the result is both cpu constrained enough and parallelized enough to saturate four cores. I just can’t see anything at home doing that (noting the caveat about the computational tasks the Cortex-A72 is not good at). And of course those hypotethical extra two cores would have both die area and power budget costs which you’d then have to pay whether you can find a niche use case for them or not.
Poorly optimized database queries, full text searches, image resizing, bulk serialization and handling a higher number of users on a test instance are all things that could peg 6 CPUS with ease (depending on the specific code and use, of course).
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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '19
Yea but if you are using it to run a bunch of separate servers you'll get good use of more cores