- Jan 27, 2005
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Considering I’ve been out of the nitty gritty tech side for a long time and my other thread on upgrading an FX-6300, I have a question.
My FX6300 is advertised as a 6-core processor. Windows reports it as 3 physical and 6 logical cores. So it actually only has 3 REAL cores, but divides itself out as 6 in software?
Newer processors that are 6/8/12(etc) cores, are they actually 6/8/12 physical actual cores on the die, or will I find an 8 core that reports as4 physical and 8 logical?
And if that is the case, how do they get away with advertising the higher core counts, but only deliver half of what is actually there?
My FX6300 is advertised as a 6-core processor. Windows reports it as 3 physical and 6 logical cores. So it actually only has 3 REAL cores, but divides itself out as 6 in software?
Newer processors that are 6/8/12(etc) cores, are they actually 6/8/12 physical actual cores on the die, or will I find an 8 core that reports as4 physical and 8 logical?
And if that is the case, how do they get away with advertising the higher core counts, but only deliver half of what is actually there?