Quote Originally Posted by OhNoes! View Post
Intel doesn't create threads, software programs do! What prevents you from running 8 threads on your super efficient thuban? You wanna eat your cake and have it too? "Real cores are better than fake cores," except when it comes to performance tests and then "fake cores" are the real deal again. Simple, i7 quad-cores can render 8 threads, well, because they can.
if u want to do something other than basic int work than real cores are better, just look at gaming benches or some floating point or 64bit int, HT s a detriment to performance. sure if u only encode video HT is great, but gaming and anything native 64bit there is no meaning full difference.