Quote Originally Posted by gOJDO View Post
Which are going to be utilized in few and very limited situations. In the same scenario, i7 has 4 extra virtual cores which are helping many heavily multithreaded apps. Combined with the more efficient architecture, I'm pretty sure i7 will win in almost all the general user software available up to date.
Any multithreaded app can take advantage of the two extra cores in Thuban. The application has no clue about how many "threads" are available to it. That's controlled by the OS. The OS will schedule the threads to execute on certain cores.