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Neil44 6 days ago

If both SMT cores are being asked to do the same workload they will likely contend for the same resource and execution units internally so the boost from SMT will be less. If they have different workloads the boost will be more. Now throw in P and E cores on newer CPU's, turbo and non-turbo, everything gets very complicated. I did see a study that adding SMT got a much better performance per watt boost than adding turbo which was interesting/useful.