pcgameshardware interview

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by Sauf

Hi Heliocon, going by this link posted in another thread the 295 is still up there, so will see how it goes.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...50,2782-7.html

True but its not dx11 (yes I am a dx11 fanboy).

I didnt see anything about hyperthreading in the article - I am not sure so if I am wrong feel free to correct me, but I believe hyperthreading is automatic and they dont need to program for it. They need to program for multiple threads, so if you have a 4 core with hyperthreading (so an i7) which = 8 threads (hyperthreading gives each core 2 threads) and the game uses more than 4 threads, it will automatically be hyperthreaded because windows sees the extra threads as cores (so it will say in your dx diag - 8 logical cpus, 4 physical cpus). So basically if it uses more than 4 threads the game will be hyperthreaded automatically, and if not (say it uses only 4 threads) then you will be hyperthreaded anyway because the other threads will be running the OS and other programs in the background.