OT: Dual Core Vs. Hyper Threading

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Mon May 9 14:54:32 UTC 2005


Yang Xiao wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have a rough idea what each technology is about, can someone explain
> to me what's the real difference between the two? Many thanks,

Dual core puts two physical cores on one die.

Hyper Threading makes use of extra cycles of a single physical core to
provide a second "virtual" core.

-- 
William Hooper




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