Mac mini dual-core vs quad-core

MrXiro said:

I'm a little confused. Not sure if I've got this wrong or not.
Does the 2.3Ghz i7 Quad Mini have Turbo Boast and Hyperthreading or is it just a Quad Core with Turbo Boost?

I thought it had Hyperthreading based on the verbiage on the Mac Mini page.



Can anyone clear this up for me?
Thanks!

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enroh said:

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-core-i7-2.3-late-2012-server-specs.html

Then to find out how it stands up check out Geekbench andPassmark to see how the CPUs rate in artificial tests but should give you an indication on performance

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

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MrXiro said:

I'm a little confused. Not sure if I've got this wrong or not.
Does the 2.3Ghz i7 Quad Mini have Turbo Boast and Hyperthreading or is it just a Quad Core with Turbo Boost?

I thought it had Hyperthreading based on the verbiage on the Mac Mini page.



Can anyone clear this up for me?
Thanks!

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KrisLord said:

I've the quad core 2.3Ghz and can confirm that it has hyperthreading too.

Xcode reports 8 processor cores when multithreading is selected in the preferences.

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MrXiro said:

Thanks! That is awesome!

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Snowcake said:

Hyperthreading is nothing more than to be able to run 2 threads on on one physical core.

Dual-core = 2 cores = 4 threads
Quad-core =4 cores = 8 threads

Hyperthreading: Performance gains can vary or even be negative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading#Performance_Claims

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