CPU core breakdown help
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It's 1 processing unit of a CPU. Back in the old days, all CPU's were 1 core. If the chip ran at 400mhz, you had 1 physical processing unit inside the chip that ran at 400mhz.
Eventually they learned how to squeeze 2 cores into 1 CPU. So it's essentially have 2 400mhz CPU's running. Then they went faster speeds, more core, faster speeds, more cores.
As they each hit about 4 cores, costs got big, so they learned how to do different things with 4 cores. Intel I7 processors have hyperthreading. This allows a core to basically run two things at once during downtime. So essentially a 4 core hyperthreading CPU can processor 8 things at once.
AMD has 8 core processors. They basically have 4 modules, with each module having 2 cores, and those 2 cores share resources in each module like cache, etc.
Intel has recently upped the game and made 6, and 8 core processors, with hyperthreading, so 12 and 16 processing "threads" as they are know as.
Eventually they learned how to squeeze 2 cores into 1 CPU. So it's essentially have 2 400mhz CPU's running. Then they went faster speeds, more core, faster speeds, more cores.
As they each hit about 4 cores, costs got big, so they learned how to do different things with 4 cores. Intel I7 processors have hyperthreading. This allows a core to basically run two things at once during downtime. So essentially a 4 core hyperthreading CPU can processor 8 things at once.
AMD has 8 core processors. They basically have 4 modules, with each module having 2 cores, and those 2 cores share resources in each module like cache, etc.
Intel has recently upped the game and made 6, and 8 core processors, with hyperthreading, so 12 and 16 processing "threads" as they are know as.
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