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Intel's Hyperthreading
Is this hyperthreading all its cracked up to be? Does AMD have a anything
similar to compete? Paul |
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Hyperthreading is way overrated. Early tests I have read show running processor intensive programs at the same time instead of in sequence will increase performance by up to 10% in some cases and decrease performance by 5% in other cases. The performance hit is blamed on the relatively small size of the level 2 cache. The newer chips with 1 MB or 2 MB L2 cache should help. Paul wrote: Is this hyperthreading all its cracked up to be? Does AMD have a anything similar to compete? Paul -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:15:41 GMT
Will Dormann wrote: Mike Walsh wrote: Hyperthreading is way overrated. Early tests I have read show running processor intensive programs at the same time instead of in sequence will increase performance by up to 10% in some cases and decrease performance by 5% in other cases. The performance hit is blamed on the relatively small size of the level 2 cache. The newer chips with 1 MB or 2 MB L2 cache should help. I could be wrong, but I think the main advantage of Hyperthreading is that it makes the computer *feel* faster by still retaining responsiveness under heavy CPU load. (rather than cutting down the time it takes to encode a video, for example) In principle a hyperthreaded CPU can handle two interrupts simultaneously, just as a dual processor machine can. In practice, as with all things hyperthreading, the efficiency with which it does so depends on whether the particular code blocks on one or more of the nonredundant elements in the pipelines. IMO this is potentially its greatest benefit, but it's mostly of use in I/O intensive environments, not memory- or calculation-intensive ones, which means that it's not going to be terribly useful for most "home" applications. It might, however, help analog video capture, which is essentially taking a bitstream from PCI device, possibly doing some processing on it, and moving it to another. But there it's only going to help if the PCI bus is not already saturated--a dual-bus machine might help there, but again you're getting into "serious server" territory and duals would probably be a viable option in such a machine. -WD -- -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Mike Walsh wrote:
Hyperthreading is way overrated. Early tests I have read show running processor intensive programs at the same time instead of in sequence will increase performance by up to 10% in some cases and decrease performance by 5% in other cases. The performance hit is blamed on the relatively small size of the level 2 cache. The newer chips with 1 MB or 2 MB L2 cache should help. I could be wrong, but I think the main advantage of Hyperthreading is that it makes the computer *feel* faster by still retaining responsiveness under heavy CPU load. (rather than cutting down the time it takes to encode a video, for example) -WD |
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Probably true. A processor intensive application running in the backgroup should not affect the response of another program as much. This probably would have made a big difference a few years ago, but with a 2 Ghz or faster processor it should not make much of a difference. Intel's advertisements are pushing the idea of using a hyperthreading processor using a gigabit network, but most computers with heavy traffic on gigabit networks are servers with more than one processor, so this point may be moot. Will Dormann wrote: I could be wrong, but I think the main advantage of Hyperthreading is that it makes the computer *feel* faster by still retaining responsiveness under heavy CPU load. (rather than cutting down the time it takes to encode a video, for example) -WD -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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"Mike Walsh" wrote in message ... Hyperthreading is way overrated. Early tests I have read show running processor intensive programs at the same time instead of in sequence will increase performance by up to 10% in some cases and decrease performance by 5% in other cases. The performance hit is blamed on the relatively small size of the level 2 cache. The newer chips with 1 MB or 2 MB L2 cache should help. Paul wrote: Is this hyperthreading all its cracked up to be? Does AMD have a anything similar to compete? Paul -- Ther is no statement-like answer to this question. First thing is that the programs you're running must support dual processing in order to see a valuable performance gain. Second thing is that the gain depends of the programs. There are some sites where the why and how are explained in detail, but the logic behind the process is complex. Finally, on top of pure performance gain, there is also the benefit of parallel processing. With my P4 / 800 - 2.4 GHz and HT enabled, I can consult my Email while rendering video in Premiere. No way to do this (without dropped frames) without hyperthreading! |
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ElJerid wrote:
With my P4 / 800 - 2.4 GHz and HT enabled, I can consult my Email while rendering video in Premiere. No way to do this (without dropped frames) without hyperthreading! Don't you mean *capturing* video? Rendering should not be affected by CPU load. The output file will be the same, but it'll just take longer to do. -WD |
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"Will Dormann" wrote in message ... ElJerid wrote: With my P4 / 800 - 2.4 GHz and HT enabled, I can consult my Email while rendering video in Premiere. No way to do this (without dropped frames) without hyperthreading! Don't you mean *capturing* video? Rendering should not be affected by CPU load. The output file will be the same, but it'll just take longer to do. Right! It' s capturing as well as exporting. Thanks for correcting. |
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AMD does not have anything similar yet.
-- DaveW "Paul" wrote in message .. . Is this hyperthreading all its cracked up to be? Does AMD have a anything similar to compete? Paul |
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:28:13 -0600
Ed wrote: On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 22:43:25 GMT, "DaveW" wrote: AMD does not have anything similar yet. AMD claims the K9 core will have it and dual cpu cores too, but that core is 2 years away if not longer, AMD doesn't need it right now , so they say. ;p AMD instead has three independent high-speed buses and 64-bit processing. Which beats hyperthreading all hollow. Ed -- -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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