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What is the difference between hyper-threading and multiple cores?

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In a conversation with the network administator, I mentioned that my machine was a dual-core. He told me it was not. I brought up the task manager, went to the perfomance tab, and showed him that there are two separate CPU usage graphs. I have a quad-core machine at home and it has four graphs. He …

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Hyper-threading exposes multiple logical cores for a single physical CPU core. In simple terms, hyper-threading makes context-switching more efficient for each CPU core. Dual-core chips, on the other hand, actually have two physical CPU cores which …

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