A CPU for Visual Studio 2017

[tridy]

Hi.

I spend quite some time in Visual Studio 2017 with Resharper installed. I have a feeling that VS is not so multi-core optimized.

Does anyone know if VS would work better on 10 or 12 or 16 cores compared to 8 or 6 or 4 cores? I mean not only compiling but IDE itself, including XAML designer and plugins.

7700K still rules in the world of single-threaded performance, even compared to 1800X.

Which cpu is best suited for work in VS? Assuming I already have a fast SSD and RAM?

Thanks!

[Lurick]

I'm going to presume they haven't changed it from 2012 but the more cores is generally better for Visual Studio when it comes to building projects

 

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11054410/does-visual-studio-2012-utilize-all-available-cpu-cores

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb383805.aspx

[unknownmiscreant]

17 minutes ago, tridy said:

Hi.

I spend quite some time in Visual Studio 2017 with Resharper installed. I have a feeling that VS is not so multi-core optimized.

Does anyone know if VS would work better on 10 or 12 or 16 cores compared to 8 or 6 or 4 cores? I mean not only compiling but IDE itself, including XAML designer and plugins.

7700K still rules in the world of single-threaded performance, even compared to 1800X.

Which cpu is best suited for work in VS? Assuming I already have a fast SSD and RAM?

Thanks!

I use a ryzen 1700x OCed to 4.025GHz with 16gb of 3466MHz DRAM for VS 2013 development. Works great. Takes longer to refresh UI than build most times.

[tridy]

2 hours ago, unknownmiscreant said:

I use a ryzen 1700x OCed to 4.025GHz with 16gb of 3466MHz DRAM for VS 2013 development. Works great. Takes longer to refresh UI than build most times.

That's the thing sort of. Building from the command line takes less time than building from IDE just because it needs to refresh lots of things. Add Resharper to it and I get like 10 seconds delay after the build to refresh the things on a 20 projects solution. As a result, I was wondering if VS IDE itself behaves better in case of 4 cores vs 8 cores, for example, keeping in mind that the 4 cores cpu has better single-thread performance.

[unknownmiscreant]

7 hours ago, tridy said:

That's the thing sort of. Building from the command line takes less time than building from IDE just because it needs to refresh lots of things. Add Resharper to it and I get like 10 seconds delay after the build to refresh the things on a 20 projects solution. As a result, I was wondering if VS IDE itself behaves better in case of 4 cores vs 8 cores, for example, keeping in mind that the 4 cores cpu has better single-thread performance.

I have no idea about the 4 vs 8 cores, as I came from a i7 3520m 2 core in my laptop. It ran fine, but nowhere near as well as ryzen does. The last intel desktop processor I owned was a core 2 duo, that really sucked.

[testys]

VS benefits from more cores. Either way, in your work environment I am sure you have several tabs, sql server, one or two instances of vs, linqpad, and music. More cores will yield better performance. Do not do 4 cores, you will be wishing you had done 8 in 6 months.