Hyperthreading - Finally an answer

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by kendo65

I think Oleg was genuinely answering whether a hyper-threading processor (eg i7-2600K) would give any advantage over a non hyper-threading (eg i5-2500K)

His answer maybe reflects the results of some testing done by Custom PC mag when the Sandy Bridges came out:

in Crysis on their test system (DX10, 64-bit, 1680x1050, no AA)

i7-2600K
min fps = 36

average fps = 64

i5-2500K
min fps = 34

average fps = 60

There you have it - Crysis takes advantage of hyperthreading too, 'but not much'

(As others have remarked there is much confusion on the go over hyper-threading V multi-threading.)



...and just to confuse things further, when the 2 processors were overclocked the i5-2500K had higher min fps (42 V 37), and equal average fps to the i7-2600K (both 67). Apparently, hyper-threading doesn't respond so well to overclocking. Underlines the fact that things are more complicated than they may at first appear.


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I went for the i5-2500K, but hey, it's your money

Yea well it would have to use more than 4 threads to be "hyperthreaded", for intel cpus. Crysis is getting a bit dated now as most people were on single or early duos when it was released. On the positive side if the game uses 4 threads and you buy a i7 with hyperthreading, you can run the OS and other software on the spare threads on the cores with the least cpu load.