quad core showing as 2 cores in cinebench
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Solved by DrJones,
My only guess would be that AMD defines a "thread" as a "core", where you have two physical cores, but 4 virtual cores or "threads".
Intel, to my knowledge, someone correct me if I'm wrong is sort-of backwards to this. Where a 4-core i7 with hyper-threading has 4 physical cores and 8 threads. That's why AMD advertises things such as the first consumer 8-core back in the day but it actually only had 4 cores with 8 threads. Whereas Intel already had something like that but they advertise it as a 4 core because that's what it actually is.
Basically 4 core AMD= 2 cores, 4 threads.
4 core i7= 4 cores, 8 threads
An i5 does not have hyper threading and is therefore 4 cores, 4 threads (I think)
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