Hyperthreading Vs No-Hyperthreading: Which CPU is better

If you are a gamer or tech freak then this must be interesting for you. You might have heard about Hyper-threading technology. But, do you know what's Hyper-threading?

By Karan
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If you are a gamer or tech freak then this must be interesting for you. You might have heard about Hyper-threading technology. But, do you know what's the difference between Hyper-threading and non-Hyperthreading? If the answer is no then here we are with the difference between the two. We will tell which one is the best.

 
Hyperthreading Vs No-Hyperthreading: Which CPU is better

Hyper-threading is officially called Hyper-Threading Technology or HT Technology. It is Intel's proprietary simultaneous multithreading (SMT) implementation used to improve parallelization of computations performed on x86 microprocessors, in simple words, to enhance multitasking.
Hyper-Threading first appeared in February 2002 on Xeon server processors and in November 2002 on Pentium 4 desktop CPUs. Later, Intel included this technology in Itanium, Atom, and Core 'i' Series CPUs, among others.

Hyper-Threading has been in Intel's processors for years. It's the main difference between the Core i5 first-gen and i7, and that many games don't use it explains why i5s power some serious gaming rigs.

How Hyper-Threading works

How Hyper-Threading works

Hyper-Threading is applied to the operations and applications where multiple tasks are scheduled so that there will be no idle time on your processor. Video editing, 3D rendering, and heavy multi-tasking are great examples of Hyper-Threading. Its helps a CPU to push the light task to background applications to one processor and the high-resolution heavy applications like games and video-editing goes to another.

If you are thinking that Hyper-Threading will increase the cores of your processors, then lets us tell you that its a myth. There is nothing to do with the physical cores of the process, it will only help in channelizing the task efficiently into a process. Hyper-Threading technology enables each core to run two threads simultaneously.

On the other hand, no Hyper-Threading technology works on the traditional method of process. There are many task and compands which are going to the processor through cores like dual-core, quad-core or octa-core and more. Sometimes the compands are not processed through the cores properly which end up with the slow processing speed of the CPU.

Hyper-Threading increases the performance of CPU cores, it enables multiple threads which are sequences of the instruction to be run by each core to make the CPU run more efficiently. With the help of this, the CPU can perform more task in the same amount of time.

 

Hyper-Threading Performance
 

Hyper-Threading Performance

Hyper-Threading increases the performance of CPU cores, it enables multiple threads which are sequences of the instruction to be run by each core to make the CPU run more efficiently. With the help of this, the CPU can perform more task in the same amount of time.

But if you are thinking that Hyper-Threading processors are better than the actual physical cores then you are wrong. As we said above that Hyper-Threading only helps in channelizing the instruction, it doesn't increase the physical cores of the processors.

With Hyper-Threading, the operating system will recognize each physical core as 2 virtual or logical cores. So basically Hyper-Threading virtually doubles the number of cores that are on the CPU. So dual-core processors will act like the virtual quad-core.

 

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Verdict

Verdict

Note that all the application are not meant to use the Hyper-Threading Technology. To take advantage of hyper-threading you have to run applications that take advantages of multi-threading technology, for example, Video editing and encoding.

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