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Am Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 20:25 schrieb Sebastian Redl: |
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> Matthias Wolle wrote: |
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> >You are right! AMD licenced HT-Technology from Intel. |
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> >AMD Dual Core CPU's uses this to fake a HT-CPU. |
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> "Fake"? Hyperthreading is just a fancy word for what AMD's "Dual Core" |
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> describes much better: these CPUs have multiple cores, i.e. instruction |
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> handlers, that share the integer, floating point etc. units. The idea is |
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> that, since in a conventional CPU all but one of these units are idle at |
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> all times, multiple cores could make better use of the CPU. |
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> Sebastian Redl |
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I dont want to contradict! |
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the german wikipedia writes (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Athlon_64_X2): |
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"Der Athlon 64 X2 gibt sich als Hyper-Threading-fähig aus und kann dadurch von |
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diversen Optimierungen profitieren,..." |
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"The Athlon 64 X2 masquerade as hyperthreading capable to benfit from |
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hyperthreading optimizations." |
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I didnt recheck this information with AMD official papers. Now I did and I |
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could not found anything about ... |
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I wrote the author of this sentence to get his source of information. |
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greets |
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Matthias |
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