I’ve watched YouTube videos but I still don’t get their analogies. I just know for tasks like gaming it’s done through 1 thread only, that’s about it.
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In most modern CPUs, they have a certain number of cores, let’s say six. Then, they have threads, which we could say are each cores ability to think. Humans can usually maintain one or two thoughts at the same time cleanly, kinda like we have one or two threads.
Hyperthreading, is where each core has a second thread, giving us 6×2 in our example of six cores, so 12 threads.
Most games use a single core, single thread. So having a 5ghz speed single core would in theory be better than 50 cores at 2ghz.
However, tasks that utilize multiple threads, say encoding video using cpu, would massively benefit from more threads.
Shortly, cores are the brain. Threads are each brains thinking lane. If it has more cores, then it has more lanes. Each core has at least one lane, but most modern systems have two per core, letting each core do more at the same time.
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