amd mocks intel's nehalem

[DarkSaint]

Real men use real cores. We've got real cores across our products. Hyperthreading is basically designed to act like a core except that it only gives 10 to 15 percent performance bump for real applications workload. That's because hyperthreading requires the core logic to maintain 2 pipelines: its normal pipeline and its hyperthreaded pipeline. A management overhead that doesn't give you a clear throughput.

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