Is there consumer s/w available now that uses multi-core CPUs?

This is my quad core eight thread CPU at about 90% for
several minutes while compressing a file using 7zip. Yes,
even freeware has caught up with multicore CPUs.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/27532210@N04/?

Besides the fact as you can see in the pic there are hundreds
of processes and thousands of threads open at the same time
on a typical PC.









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"Yes" wrote:

Maybe OT, but given the thread about future CPUs, is there
consumer software now that actually uses the multi-core CPU
technology? I mean, all the additional cores sounds nice,
but has any consumer s/w caught up with the hardware?

TIA,

John Howland

On 23/06/2017 11:57 PM, Yes wrote:
Maybe OT, but given the thread about future CPUs, is there consumer
software now that actually uses the multi-core CPU technology? I mean,
all the additional cores sounds nice, but has any consumer s/w caught
up with the hardware?

Microsoft Excel, for example, will use all of your existing cores and
threads. Run some highly demanding Excel benchmarks, and you'll see all
cores pegged to 100%.

Various games designed for DirectX 12 and Vulcan API's are also highly
multithreaded.


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