Quote Originally Posted by Particle View Post
As I recall it, CMT is billed as a module providing 80% of two full cores per module instead of 80% per core per module with the intent being to mean 180% of the performance of a single core performance per module before software scaling limitations are thrown in. This is done at an expense of a 12% die space increase per module iirc resulting in a 5% overall larger die.
It's truly a novel and wonderful idea, if only the single thread performance didn't sink to K7 level.