Question Windows 10 home/enterprise or 11 for 64 core workloads

[jayleonis]

Would there be any preference between 10 home/pro and 10 enterprise or even windows 11 for up to 64 core constant max utilization work load? (Threadripper 3990x) I heard various things about enterprise allocating the cores properly but also that the latest version of 10 home does the same now. I also may just be misunderstanding. Ty!

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Unless you are a company with several hundred users you cannot legally obtain a license for Windows Enterprise so that's off the table immediately. The home & pro versions are identical except that pro contains features that allow for joining of domains and other corporate functions not required for home use.

 

[COLGeek]

What is the use-case here? What tool/application do you intend to run that needs all those cores? Chess?

 

[jayleonis]

What is the use-case here? What tool/application do you intend to run that needs all those cores? Chess?

Poker

 

[COLGeek]

Poker

For use in a competitive sense? Or personal use (for fun and adventure)?

 

[jayleonis]

apparently my cpu isn’t support in windows 11 regardless. Threadripper 3990x

Windows processor requirements Windows 11 supported AMD processors

This specification details the AMD processors that can be used with Windows 11 customer systems that include Windows products, including custom images.

learn.microsoft.com

 

[COLGeek]

Then Win 10 (or Linux) would be your choice.

 

[USAFRet]

We thought you were giving up on the 3990x:

Question - Just installed 3990x - getting same benchmark times as 3970x - is windows 10 holding me back?

I just swapped out my 3970x 32/64 core CPU for the 3990x 64/128 core. With the number crunching program I use I am noticed basically the same work time for the exact same task. In fact when I set the program to use 128 threads my CPU in task manager says 70% CPU utilization. I have read that...

forums.tomshardware.com

 

[jayleonis]

We thought you were giving up on the 3990x:

Question - Just installed 3990x - getting same benchmark times as 3970x - is windows 10 holding me back?

I just swapped out my 3970x 32/64 core CPU for the 3990x 64/128 core. With the number crunching program I use I am noticed basically the same work time for the exact same task. In fact when I set the program to use 128 threads my CPU in task manager says 70% CPU utilization. I have read that...

forums.tomshardware.com

Yeah but then I just said I’ll keep the 64 lol. Considering now getting the 32 core TR 7975wx! Super expensive considering though when factoring 1600+ for 512 of rdimm ddr5 and 1k mother board

 

[kanewolf]

Would there be any preference between 10 home/pro and 10 enterprise or even windows 11 for up to 64 core constant max utilization work load? (Threadripper 3990x) I heard various things about enterprise allocating the cores properly but also that the latest version of 10 home does the same now. I also may just be misunderstanding. Ty!

There is also Windows Workstation ... It has slightly different hardware limitations, compared to Pro.