AMD A10-5700

[Flamebug]

I have an AMD A10-5700, why does the CPU Temp register it to have 4 cores, but task manager says it has 2 cores? What's the difference between their definition of a core and why?

[Streetguru]

5 minutes ago, Flamebug said:

I have an AMD A10-5700, why does the CPE Temp register it to have 4 cores, but task manager says it has 2 cores? What's the difference between there definition of a core and why?

Windows reads it as 2 cores 4 threads for some reason

 

AMD's chips from that line up have 1 integer unit each but share a floating point unit.

[Snipergod87]

Because it is 2 modules with 4 threads.  If both threads need to use the FPU they will be competing for resources like hyperthreading, as opposed to 2 real cores where they will each have their own resources.  I imagine Windows does this to help better optimize what processes go on what cores/threads

[Crunchy Dragon]

36 minutes ago, Flamebug said:

I have an AMD A10-5700, why does the CPE Temp register it to have 4 cores, but task manager says it has 2 cores? What's the difference between there definition of a core and why?

CPE Temp registers threads as cores, is my guess.

 

That CPU has 2 physical processors(cores), 4 logical processors(threads).

[Herman Mcpootis]

it has 4 cores and 2 modules, i'm not sure why people keep counting them as having half the core count...