AMD Core Counts and Bulldozer: Preparing for an APU World

[Final8y]

The New Way to Count Cores

Henceforth AMD is referring to the number of integer cores on a processor when it counts cores. So a quad-core Zambezi is made up of four integer cores, or two Bulldozer modules. An eight-core would be four Bulldozer modules.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3683&p=2

 

[gamesaregood]

Interesting read, sounds like a good way forward.... will be interesting to see how they perform

 

[Rroff]

How many cores/threads does windows see tho?

 

[Owenb]

How many cores/threads does windows see tho?

It will see 2 cores for every BD module. That is, the OS sees what you buy- if you buy a quad-core(i.e 2 BD modules) then the number of 'cores' that threads can run on is 4.