AM3+ 8-core CPUs have nothing virtual as clearly shown by the die shot.

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All threads correspond to physical cores, but these cores are grouped into modules of two to share resources. As you can see, i7s have four physical cores, each with a virtual Hyperthreading thread.

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Different approaches. If you don't think the extra threads can be put to use, look up some BF3 multiplayer and Crysis 3 benches.

r00t wrote AM3+ 8-core CPUs have nothing virtual as clearly shown by the die shot.

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All threads correspond to physical cores, but these cores are grouped into modules of two to share resources. As you can see, i7s have four physical cores, each with a virtual Hyperthreading thread.

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Different approaches. If you don't think the extra threads can be put to use, look up some BF3 multiplayer and Crysis 3 benches.

Well thank you for that, tomshardware lied.... If I can find the post I'll link it. They went into detail about the 4 extra cores.