AMD Patent Could Enable Hyperthreading
El_Coyote
would be nice if amd could make Hyperthreading, its so nice :)
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No it's not. Intel's implementation barely gives any boost at all, much less one a user can tell while using the system without running benchmarks. Besides, initial benchmarks of the Hammer family are showing these CPU's more than handle a Pee4 CPU even with HT enabled.
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I'm not a lawyer, but from what I've seen from patent suits, there aren't hard to pursue in court nor are they costly. All you have to prove is that you successfully filed a patent (which AMD did) and show that the other company is using it (which Intel is).
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Heck, as an addendum to this, there was news not long ago that a company (compaq I think, maybe HP) was disabling HT in it's processors due to the fact it actually slowed things down. Yeah, you're right. It's so sweet. bwhahahaha
El_Coyote
a "boost" of 30% on multithreaded applications is quite sucessfull to me
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It's extremely rare when this boost of 30% happens. In Intel's own benchmarks, they rarely get that much. Indeed, 5% seems to be the magic number if a performance increase is gained at all. In fact, there have been some cases where HT has been found to hurt performance. Outside of Intel's BS (i.e. the real world), there has been little gain to using HT. Kinda makes me wonder if AMD implemented this if it would be any better than what Intel is doing. It's been suggested that they will go dual core in the second half of this year. Seems to me that will be the best way to go.