Paul wrote:
Bill wrote:
Paul wrote:
Â*THe (T) part measures Hyperthreading,
which helps 7ZIP a bit. But it's the C number that bears most
of the weight when doing 7ZIP (or RAR) compression.
Do all of the newer CPUs offer Hyperthreading (or something equivalent)?
I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I presume it enables multiple
threads to run faster on a single core.Â* For example, do the new AMD
CPUs have hyperthreading (or something equivalent)?

Cheers,
Bill

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Thank you! It occurred to me that I could look at some benchmarks to
see which CPUs are doing a good job with this. IIRC, last time I bought
a CPU, hyperthreading may have been a feature on the Intel "I-7"s which
wasn't on "I-5"s or "I-3"s.