Imagine this base configuration: 1-cpu board with a 4-core processor, performance is 100%.
How different from that configuration performance-wise will be:
- 2-cpu board with 4-core processors
- 1-cpu board with 8-core processor
The total number of cores in both configs is 8 and that's twice as many as in the base config, so my guess is their performance is supposed to be 200% of base config, but then I'm not knowledgeable enough in this area to make a decent guess.
Price is not my concern in this question, I just want to know how the performance changes if the total cpu core number increase is done within and outside a single processor.
My personal interest lies in gaming and game development. I don't know about other games, but my own games I try to make multithreaded, so they could take advantage of all those cpu cores on my pc.