Single core performance is the only reason I chose Intel this time around.
Even though I do a lot of docker and some rendering and Photoshop - most development tasks, docker builds, and even most Photoshop tasks that aren't GPU accelerated are bottlenecked on single core performance.
Same goes for the overall zippiness of the OS. The most important thing for me is that whatever I am doing this moment is as fast as possible and single core performance still rules since most software still does not take advantage of multiple cores.
For the next home server though, I am definitely planning on a high core count AMD.
I would add though, that all the new processors are getting so fast, that the difference in single core performance is probably not noticeable. Your main issue would be long running single core tasks which are generally more likely to be multithreaded.
Even though I do a lot of docker and some rendering and Photoshop - most development tasks, docker builds, and even most Photoshop tasks that aren't GPU accelerated are bottlenecked on single core performance.
Same goes for the overall zippiness of the OS. The most important thing for me is that whatever I am doing this moment is as fast as possible and single core performance still rules since most software still does not take advantage of multiple cores.
For the next home server though, I am definitely planning on a high core count AMD.
I would add though, that all the new processors are getting so fast, that the difference in single core performance is probably not noticeable. Your main issue would be long running single core tasks which are generally more likely to be multithreaded.