Hyperthreading Or Turbo boost?

[amujaba]

which is more important to a intel cpu? hyperthreading or turbo boost?

[amujaba]

assuming that i7 is not included to my options

[Aniallation]

which is more important to a intel cpu? hyperthreading or turbo boost?

For single or lightly threaded workloads, Turbo Boost

For multi-threaded workloads, Hyper-Threading

[nsyedhasan]

Well, it depends on what you are doing. It also makes a difference what CPUs you are comparing. Could you tells us what you are comparing?

[amujaba]

this is for gaming nothing more nothing less. so what should i choose? a cpu with a hyperthreading or with a turbo boost?

[Aniallation]

this is for gaming nothing more nothing less. so what should i choose? a cpu with a hyperthreading or with a turbo boost?

 

Depends what CPU's we're comparing. For example i3's Hyper-Threading will benefit a lot over Pentium with no Hyper-Threading, but i7 will not benefit over i5.

[nsyedhasan]

this is for gaming nothing more nothing less. so what should i choose? a cpu with a hyperthreading or with a turbo boost?

Most of the time, games don't take advantage of all the cores on a CPU. This would mean that would be better to have turbo boost. But if you are using software that can use more than one core, hyperthreading would win out.

 

What CPUs are you trying to compare? Like the Pentium G3258 and i3 or what?

[amujaba]

im trying to compare this two cpu 

Intel Core i5-4460 or Intel Pentium G3258

[nsyedhasan]

 

im trying to compare this two cpu 

Intel Core i5-4460 or Intel Pentium G3258

 

The i5 would be better then the Pentium. It will also cost almost twice as much. The performance difference, in my mind, wouldn't warrant the extra 100$ or so.

[Aniallation]

 

im trying to compare this two cpu 

Intel Core i5-4460 or Intel Pentium G3258

 

 

The i5 would be better then the Pentium. It will also cost almost twice as much. The performance difference, in my mind, wouldn't warrant the extra 100$ or so.

 

It would depend on what you are playing. In newer AAA games, it's not that the performance difference in your opinion isn't worth the extra $100 or so, but you NEED at least an i3 to even play these games. On a dual-core, games like Far Cry 4, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, Dragon Age Inquisition, Assassin's Creed Unity and some others won't even run AT ALL on a G3258. And many AAA titles that do run have horrible minimum frame rates (and therefore perceivable stuttering) when the game is able to naturally leverage more then two cores for it's resources, such as in Battlefield 4 or Crysis 3. As much as people make you think that it doesn't, a G3258 WILL bottleneck high-end GPUs. In newer games, even an R9 270 will be bottlenecked by a G3258.

 

The i5 will destroy the Pentium in every game, even if it's a lot more expensive, do not get the G3258 for gaming unless you strictly play older games or MMOs. If you can't afford an i5, an i3 will still be better then G3258.