I'm confused :P

CreeperFino · Jul 5, 2016

So the AMD A10-6700 is a quad core CPU, right? Well, I decided to look in system information one day and see that it may actually be just a hyperthreaded dual core cpu! http://prntscr.com/bpa9hq
Any explanations?

AidanA128 · Jul 5, 2016

AMD likes to treat virtual cores like physical cores in their advertising. I wouldn't be surprised if the A10 was a dual core.

Martell1977 · Jul 5, 2016

It's a 2 "module", 4 core CPU. Windows reads it as 2 core with hyperthreading...for the most part. AMD took a new approach to the design of CPU's. 2 "integer cores" sharing some resources in a module. You have a quad core, it's just that they are not like Intel's "complete" cores.

AMD's next lineup, code named "Zen", will be more traditional and be 4 full cores with hyperthreading, like Intel has.

COLGeek · Jul 5, 2016

HT is an Intel only tech. To keep it simple, the A10 is, indeed, 2x2 "cores", not exactly the same as 4 pure cores as some resources are shared.

Some info can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_accelerated_processing_unit_microprocessors

NEmpire95 · Jul 5, 2016

I believe AMD uses modules and has 2 cores on each modual. You have 4 cores but only 2 per modual, hyper-threading is an intel technology.

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