Hi. I know what a physical and virtual cores are but in terms of performance is there any difference between a physical core and a virtual core?
Lets say you had two processors and for the purpose of this example they were identical except one was a quad core without hyper threading and the other was a dual core with hyper threading, would they be equal? Thanks
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Jump to PostNo, they are not the same.
Benchmarks with and without hyperthreading show a difference of between 5 and 30 per cent. (depending on the application)In your example the true quad would be significantly faster.
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