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anonymfus on Nov 5, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: AMD ships 16-core x86 3ghz CPU

>It's really a shame how AMD's per-thread performance has been lagging Intel.

Are you sure that you don't mix it with single-thread performance or per-core performance?

astrodust on Nov 6, 2012 [–]

It's based on "thread" meaning "execution channel" which is usually core or, in the case of Hyper-Thread, a portion of a core.

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