No. HT has at best 30% improvement. And worst is it hurts ;) The boost clocks are higher, you're probably gonna run at this more often than not when you care a

No. HT has at best 30% improvement. And worst is it hurts ;) The boost clocks are higher, you're probably gonna run at this more often than not when you care about it. There maybe some work loads where having more cores will actually care, but HT isn't all that huge if a performance increase.