Back in 2012, I built a 16-core dual-Xeon beast for rendering of Adobe After Effects/Premiere & 3D composites, based on the promise that multi-core threading was the way of the future...
But the dream fizzled for me after Adobe CC 2014 when support for multi-core processing in AE was taken out of user contol & performance enhancement preferences. AE renders slowed down after that. I think the much better all-around strategy for me to have taken would have been a single, 6-core, overclocked i7...
Does any software these days actually make any worthwhile use of 16 cores?