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I recently took some time to look into simultaneous multithreading (SMT), as hyper-threading is more often called, and I put together a new entry on it in the Ars Technopaedia.
This may already be answered in another thread but here goes anyway. Suppose I have a 4 core processor with 8 threads of hyper threading. Let's take the Intel I7-4770K as an example.
Hyper-threading is Intel's name for a feature where a single processor can simultaneously run two threads. It's been built into the Pentium 4 since the start, but until recently only enabled for ...
See multithreading and multicore. Standard Modes vs. Hyper-Threading Applications must be multithreaded in order to take advantage of Hyper-Threading whether in single-core or dual-core machines.
Cores vs 12 Threads Games: pubg Battlefield 1 - 01:00 Hitman - 02:14 The Witcher 3 - 03:32 Fallout 4 - 05:12 Project Cars - ...
Intel first introduced Hyper-Threading (HT) technology with is Xeon CPU architecture back in 2002, over 20 years ago now, with simultaneous multithreading technology allowing physical cores inside ...
Actually, I'm pretty high on hyper-threading, but I think that, on the desktop, multithreading will only continue to creep in slowly over a long period of time.
Intel, in contrast, has long used simultaneous multithreading (SMT), which they call Hyper-Threading, in which two instructions from different threads can be executed in the same clock cycle.
Supporting Hyper-Threading has a small but noticeable increase in power consumption, and it also consumes valuable space on the CPU die. The additional threads can also be detrimental to ...