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Intel i5 desktop chips don’t have hyper-threading (SMT) and haven’t for the 10 years they’ve been available. Typically the i7 variant of the same CPU has been a
by rythie 7y ago
Intel i5 desktop chips don’t have hyper-threading (SMT) and haven’t for the 10 years they’ve been available. Typically the i7 variant of the same CPU has been about £100 more (roughly 50%). The point about only 5% extra die space makes no difference to the consumer, as there is/was quite a high cost premium on desktops for that feature. Now Intel has removed hyper-threading from most of it’s i7 desktop chips, and you get 2 extra cores over the i5 version instead.
- baybal2 7y agoDesktop cores are tiny today in comparison to all other useless stuff put on die like "AI" accelerators and such. That is even worse in mobile chips. All people call Intel cores to be oversized, but they need to look at up to date die shots. All cores combined can be less than a half of the die area.
- tyingq 7y ago"Intel i5 desktop chips don’t have hyper-threading (SMT) and haven’t for the 10 years they’ve been available." That's mostly true, though there have been a few desktop i5 processors with hyperthreads. Like: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/43546/intel-core-i5-650-processor-4m-cache-3-20-ghz.html https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/43546/i...