Intel’s Core i7-9700K abandons Hyper-Threading: What it could mean for performance
Nov 06, 2018
2 minutes
BY GORDON MAH UNG
Core i7, the boss wants to talk to you. The good news: you got a promotion and a bump from six cores up to eight cores in Intel’s 9th-generation CPU lineup (see page 7). Woo-hoo! The bad news: Turn in your Hyper-Threading, because the cool feature that gave you virtualized CPU cores and about 30 percent more performance is gone.
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