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Subject: Re: Pentium 4 and hyperthreading (to Charles Worthington)

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 13:10:24 02/19/03

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On February 19, 2003 at 15:38:02, martin fierz wrote:

>On February 19, 2003 at 14:57:18, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>Hyatt has two CPUs. Each CPU will provide about a 16% boost in crafty from
>>Hyper-threading so 16% X 2 = 32%. Pretty much identical to his claim.
>
>i don't follow this math. one CPU = 100%, hyperthreading on =116%.
>by this account 2 CPUs are 200% and hyperthreading 2*116=232%. that is
>still only a 16% speedup...
>
>cheers
>  martin
>

I was referring vs one cpu, two with HT would provide ~30%. If you mean in
general with two chips w/o HT + two with HT then yes, you are correct. It helps
but IMO not enough to provide the lead over a fast dual AMD box.



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