Workstation Compute
The CPU composite score of SolidWorks combines render and compute performance. Multi-core scaling isn't the emphasis. Rather, per-core performance moves the needle furthest.
If the workload consists of strictly rendering, then Core i9-9900K is hard to beat.
Interestingly enough, AMD's CPUs dominate the 3ds Max composite score (this program seems better-optimized for AMD's architecture in general). For the first time, Core i7-8700K doesn't stand a chance against the Core i9.
Intel's CPUs bounce back in the rendering test, whereas AMD's Ryzen 7 2700X drops a few spots.
Creo reminds us that maximizing work done per clock cycle is critical. It'll probably take a very long time for developers to optimize for threading.
Almost everything in this application is perfectly parallelized, so a combination of threads and per-core performance form a brutal alliance.
Aside from the render workloads, there's no reason to buy a Core i9 over the older Core i7-8700K. But then the entire platform is out of place and you might want to consider a real workstation instead.
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