A lot of rendering benefits from having SMT/HT disabled. Almost every film studio will do so. Having accurate hardware thread counts matter in those scenarios

A lot of rendering benefits from having SMT/HT disabled. Almost every film studio will do so. Having accurate hardware thread counts matter in those scenarios because the renderers will basically peg each core completely , and the risk of having an SMT/HT context switch between them is detrimental. It was often up to a 30% speed decrease when HT was enabled for us in production scenes. Similarly , many games run better without HT. HT primarily benefits scenarios with many smaller jobs without latency sensitivity. Today though, E-cores have largely replaced the need for HT. It’s much easier to send them to an E core and have them done without the extra overhead of HT scheduling and support.