I7 2600: Hyperthreading Is Useful With What Software?

[TomBrooklyn]

What common software takes advantage of the i7 2600's hyperthreading?

 

[mcnumpty23]

i7 2600 doesnt have hyperthreading

the i7 2600k does

a few games might but not many

adobe cs5 probably will

some video encoding softwares as well i imagine

 

[ahnilated]

i7 2600 doesnt have hyperthreading

the i7 2600k does

a few games might but not many

adobe cs5 probably will

some video encoding softwares as well i imagine

You might want to restate that.

http://ark.intel.com/products/52213

the i7 2600 is the same as the K version except the K version is unlocked.

http://ark.intel.com/products/52214/Intel-Core-i7-2600K-Processor-%288M-Cache-3_40-GHz%29

@TomBrooklyn most users won't see much benefit of this. You would have to run multiple processes or a program that would make use of it. Tom's has some reviews and shows programs that actually make use of all the threads.

 

[mcnumpty23]

You might want to restate that.

http://ark.intel.com/products/52213

the i7 2600 is the same as the K version except the K version is unlocked.

http://ark.intel.com/products/52214/Intel-Core-i7-2600K-Processor-%288M-Cache-3_40-GHz%29

my mistake--one of those days--was thinking of 2500 not 2600

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

To get an idea where hyper-threading can make a difference take a look at this group of comparison benchmarks between the Intel® Core™ i5-2500K and the Intel Core i7-2600K http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/288?vs=287 In the end the simple answer is that hyper-threading makes a difference in highly threaded application like video edit and encoding but not gaming.

Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

 

[TomBrooklyn]

Hi.

That's a good comparison at Anand. Thanks.

I see it did better at Encode, but what software would that translate to?

I see it did better at Cinebench and POV Ray. What are Cinebench and POV Ray?

I see it did better at Excel Monte Carlo Simulation. I know what Excel is, but what is the Monte Carlo Simulation, and how does that relate to regular Excel performance?


By the way, will HT help with huge Access or SQL databases?

 

[esrever]

ht will not be used much on common everyday software.

 

[jaguarskx]

By the way, will HT help with huge Access or SQL databases?

Only if HT support has been implemented. I cannot find nothing about MS Office (or any of it's individual programs) which indicate HT support.

If you are going to be overclocking your CPU, then it is best to simply get the i5-2500k.

If you you are not going to overclock, then you can simply buy the i5-2500.


Generally speaking, the program that many people use that supports HT is likely to be Handbrake to encode video.

 

[Warrax22]

I see it did better at Encode, but what software would that translate to?

Vegas Pro 11 will fully use all logical/physical cores so HT will be used for that, Vegas is pretty good for encoding because of that.

 

[TomBrooklyn]

Well, with Vegas Pro mentioned, that's only one software application so far that can utilize HT. HT capability doesn't sound very enticing.

 

[esrever]

HT is near useless and just make people pay for something that they would never use effectively.