The biggest benefit I've found to running a 1950X isn't something I would have expected, but which perhaps I should have. True, it's much faster than my old system for batch processing, but most of the time it's still idle. Even if it's running Chrome flat-out, as far as the 1950X is concerned, that's idle.
Because the two NUMA nodes are ~entirely independent, it's capable of running two independent processes at full speed. In practice, that means lower latencies and less jitter, and it's been noticeable. Folklore would have it that single-thread performance is the most important aspect of desktop performance, but that isn't what I've observed.
...it's also useful when I, e.g, decide to run a Factorio server on my desktop.
Because the two NUMA nodes are ~entirely independent, it's capable of running two independent processes at full speed. In practice, that means lower latencies and less jitter, and it's been noticeable. Folklore would have it that single-thread performance is the most important aspect of desktop performance, but that isn't what I've observed.
...it's also useful when I, e.g, decide to run a Factorio server on my desktop.