Re:My Hackintosh Hardware Spec
by darpa_escapee on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @09:56AM
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Unless the parallel operations you're running interweave nicely with the CPU pipeline, there are many instances where a hyperthreading enabled 4-core CPU performs no better than a non-hyperthreading enabled 4-core CPU.
On average, a setup with 4 logical cores and 4 physical cores performs 15%-30% faster than a setup with just 4 physical cores.
Fair enough, I wasn't aware performance was that bad.
Regardless, my point is that the article didn't specify if he meant logical or physical cores, therefore saying that the article is wrong, is partially incorrect (and seems like an unnecessary attempt to nitpick for the sake of nitpicking).
Actually it has 8 logical cores and 4 physical cores. For all practical purposes, you have 8 cores at your disposal. I build workstations for 3D rendering and I have yet to see a tool that cares whether the cores are physical or logical, as long as you have enough RAM for each core, you can use each one to it's fullest extent.