There's also the added fun that using hyperthreading/SMT cores impacts your workload on the corresponding primary cores as well. Depending on your workload SMT

There's also the added fun that using hyperthreading/SMT cores impacts your workload on the corresponding primary cores as well. Depending on your workload SMT can end up being a throughput/latency trade off you might not have been aware of. Ampere doesn't do SMT, so you get comparable performance across the board.