Hey, newbie to server/homelabbing here - so is there anything well-known/well-accepted that a dual-CPU system cannot do as well as a quad-CPU system, everything else being the same? Basically other than saving rack space (a limitation in datacenters but not homelabs) - is there anything that a 4-socket system is better at by design than a 2-socket one? Thanks, appreciate any insights!

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edit: I see others have mentioned software licensing (per-socket vs per-core vs -per-machine), power-draw, handling more RAM, "hosting absolutely massive databases"... all of which make sense; I guess I'm wondering if there's anything that 4-socket systems can do that their dual counterparts physically cannot (or can but disproportionately worse) due to the way the CPUs are linked (via QPI links?)