MISSING CORES

[BLACLLISTER01]

Hey guys, recently i bought a new laptop, with an A10 8700p processor in it, it's supposed to have 4 cores clocked al 1.8 Ghz, but both Windows and Cinebench R15 tell me it's a dual core chip, is there a way to know if my system is just using 2 of them or is it actually using all four cores?

Also, by the way, supposedly when in Turbo Mode it goes up to 3.2 Ghz, is that something I have to activate or is it automatic?

[iRileyx]

No thats just AMD, their "quad" cores are only 2 physical cores, six cores are 3, 8 cores are 4. They base it on the logical cores rather than physical cores.

[bgibbz]

I think you wer confusing threads and cores. Looks like there are two physical cores and 4 threads.

[Xsilent(X)]

maybe W10 did a coreparking try this program https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol

 

[catzambia]

2 cores, 4 threads

[SLAYR]

9 minutes ago, Xsilent(X) said:

maybe W10 did a coreparking try this program https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol

 

That stopped being a problem in windows 7.

13 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

No thats just AMD, their "quad" cores are only 2 physical cores, six cores are 3, 8 cores are 4. They base it on the logical cores rather than physical cores.

There are 4 physical cores on the cpu, windows just reports it weird for amd cpu because of the 1 fpu per two cores, it does have 4 physical cores on the cpu though. 

[BLACLLISTER01]

Just now, Xsilent(X) said:

maybe W10 did a coreparking try this program https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol

 

Okay, it detects al 4 cores, i just don't understand if it is just windows or is it false advertising

[SLAYR]

Just now, BLACLLISTER01 said:

Okay, it detects al 4 cores, i just don't understand if it is just windows or is it false advertising

It is windows this is a known problem with it and amd cpus. 

[Qwweb]

Better than my old laptop that supposedly had a 4 physical core i5 in it... I got  a defect... 3 of the cores were dead

[Xsilent(X)]

4 minutes ago, BLACLLISTER01 said:

Okay, it detects al 4 cores, i just don't understand if it is just windows or is it false advertising

 

Then you're problem is solved nothing to worry about. just carry on but slide the 2 last to 50% for better performance.

[Shadow_Storm56]

Cinabench score of 156...... Holy crap....

[BLACLLISTER01]

Just now, SLAYR said:

It is windows this is a known problem with it and amd cpus. 

Is there any test to be sure it's actually using two cores? because I heard Cinebench only works with Threads or am I wrong?

[SLAYR]

3 minutes ago, BLACLLISTER01 said:

Is there any test to be sure it's actually using two cores? because I heard Cinebench only works with Threads or am I wrong?

The cinebench score seems right for that.

So it seems like it is working fine.

 

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-A-Series-A10-8700P-Carrizo-Notebook-Processor-Specifications-and-Benchmarks.144218.0.html

 

This is showing 190 points for it, so a little bit slower, but there is a margin of uncertainty in the test to account for that.

[Nightness]

Wow, ParkControl beefed up my Cinebench CPU score by 50%!