Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Or intel needing 8 threads to compete with AMD's 6 .Glass half empty or half full anyone?
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.