> has less cores than I remember seeing at the same price a decade ago
Less cores but probably 5x more performance per core now.
> has less cores than I remember seeing at the same price a decade ago
Less cores but probably 5x more performance per core now.
This is more helpful when software doesn't just pin the first 4 available cores at 100% to get things done.
How? If each core is 5x faster then it's done 5x sooner. I can't think of a use case for a cheap vps where 5x faster per core cpus are not helpful.
A slower background transcode usually doesn't matter, but a faster transcode that stops important processes running in the meantime might. This is usually fixable with effort, but sometimes it's nice to not have to configure everything to the nth degree.