What is the difference between the number of cores and the number of logical pro

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jamalnuman Posts 6 Registration date Sunday November 3, 2019 Status Member Last seen October 20, 2023 - Nov 30, 2019 at 01:15 AM
jamalnuman Posts 6 Registration date Sunday November 3, 2019 Status Member Last seen October 20, 2023 - Dec 14, 2019 at 03:18 AM
What is the difference between the number of cores and the number of logical processors?

For example, in the screenshots below, I got 6 cores and 16 logical processors. How about the actual speed of the machine? Is it 6X3.5 or 12X3.5



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David Webb Posts 3177 Registration date Monday November 25, 2019 Status Administrator Last seen May 15, 2023   6,926
Dec 10, 2019 at 04:44 AM
Physical cores are number of physical cores, actual hardware components.

Logical cores are the number of physical cores times the number of threads that can run on each core through the use of hyperthreading.

for example, your 6-core processor runs two threads per core, thus you have 12 logical processors.

In your initial question you were asking about the actual speed. The clock speed of your computer is 3.5GHz x the no. of cores, so your speed would be 3.5GHz x 6 physical cores. The higher the clock speed, the more operations the CPU can execute per second.

This page can explain how to calculate processor speed on multi-core processors.

Best,
David
David Webb

Content Editor and Community Manager - CCM.net

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