Supreme Commander - A random CPU question

[Dark_Angel]

Something I wondered.

With SC being multicore, would a Athlon 64 say 3500, be better than a 3.2GHZ P4 HT? Since HT is basically mutlicore?

I am using conroe at the moment, so this isn't really asked for a purpose, other than P4's have HT, but generally worse for games... so which would be better

 

[Dark_Angel]

HT isn't multicore, it basically means the CPU saves some of its resources and presents them to the OS as a second core, making for smoother multitasking, the CPU is still a single core CPU.

The Athlon 3500 is a more powerful CPU and will probably still outperform the P4.

Hmm, well I perhaps badly worded my post, I actually meant that windows/Adobe Premiere/whatever sees it as a second core... Sorry, that was my mistake

 

[Dark_Angel]

a CPU with Hyper Threading is, I believe, an ARRAY PROCESSOR
This means that it has a single CPU core, but 2 Arithmetic Logic units - meaning that it can thread calculations etc onto the second ALU.
However it is not capable of 99.9% of things that a true dual core CPU is - think of it as "virtual dual core"

I know its not a true dual core, I was saying that most programs pick it up as a second core, so was just curious about if a P4 (which is tradionaly worse at games than an Athlon 64) would suddenly claw in to the lead in multithreaded apps (this obviously is NOT the X2 athlon 64 range).