I am helping a friend who is trying to run multiple threads on a system with an Intel Core i3-3217U processor.
According to Intel's website, that processor has 2 cores which support 4 threads per core(?) (implying 8 threads total):
- # of Cores: 2 (Cores is a hardware term that describes the number of independent central processing units in a single computing component (die or chip).)
- # of Threads: 4 (A Thread, or thread of execution, is a software term for the basic ordered sequence of instructions that can be passed through or processed by a single CPU core.) [emphasis mine]
Yet this other site states:
- "Thanks to Intel Hyper-Threading the core-count is effectively doubled, to 4 threads."
Can one expect to efficiently multi-process 4 threads or 8 threads with that processor?