Cpu core count question.

shadowman248 · Dec 14, 2015

The CPU I'm looking at is amd and says it is part of the quad core family but when I look at the spec of it, it says the CPU count is 8. Is it a quad core or an 8 core?

Petrossa · Dec 14, 2015

In Intel speak, it is a quad core with hyper-threading.
So, 4 physical cores each capable of working on 2 threads at once.
In AMD speak, it is a quad module cpu capable of working on 8 threads at once.

rgd1101 · Dec 14, 2015

It will be more helpful if you can tell us the exact AMD model you are looking at.

Eggz · Dec 14, 2015

AMD is getting sued over this exact topic right now. No one really knows what is exactly in those chips, but it's likely not what's on the printed materials. Go with Intel if you can, at least until the next batch of chips comes out, if you want to know exactly how many "cores" you'll have. But if you don't care and just want it to perform, you can always just look at the performance benchmarks.

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