Hi! i was reading websites like https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks/
And I want to choose my new computer based mainly on cpu, because I can add a egpu or something like that for bake lights if I chose Mac mini. I was doing builds for mobile market with no real time light, all is baked.
Right now I have a Mac Pro 2013 for bake lights but when I do a build take the same time than my MacBook Pro 2016, its a bit old right now.
the main question, when I choose a cpu, for unity3d purposes, should I based my opinion in single core stats or multicore?
Hi,
Instead of looking at some somewhat artificial benchmark results, I would get a good generic purpose CPU that has enough cores and other features. In short, buy good enough CPU that you can afford.
Game development requires you to do many different things, that why I’d just try to focus on generalism, good overall performance. You are not doing something super specialized where every % matters.
And to be honest, I think your problems and challenges in game development will arise from different sources than the single/multi-core performance of your CPU.
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Thank you, sincerely a very intelligent opinion
You mean, trying to get downloads? or trying to get working some special shaders and thinks related to game development really?
Best regards
Yes all that other stuff - getting something done, focusing on the critical things, fixing bugs, figuring out APIs, learning other required things, getting graphics done…and so on. 
And a CPU/computer in general is not really the biggest factor in that equation…
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Thank you very much for your paradigm, its really good. Maybe I will choose a simple computer and work with that.
Have an awesome week!
The recommendation was to get the best computer you can afford, not a simple one.
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that’s easy if you have enough money, but when I try to choose a cpu and scores there is a big difference between single-core tasks and multicore, then if single core its good a Mac mini 1400$ could be a nice computer, but if better to see multicore stats then I need to switch to iMac 5k for 3000$…
I think you missed the point. Get the computer you CAN afford, not the one you can’t afford. Clearly more expensive computers will be higher performing.
Have you ever considered going to PC/Windows? You would get a lot more for your money. I know it’s not mac but I’ve used both and I can live with both
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Some tasks in the Unity editor are well multithreaded and some are not. So it is hard to say one is far superior than the other.
Though Apple has terrible price to performance ratios for their computers, and includes only minimal cooling solutions. Under heavy load Apple generally relies on the user not getting their advertised boost clock, or hitting thermal throttling, where a PC with a good cooling solution and the exact same CPU would see significantly higher performance for longer.
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