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Kaby Lake Pentium processors get Hyper-Threading
The primary Kaby Lake CPUs in the form of the 7600 and 7700 series have been released last week (and took most aattention), there also have been a number of Pentium processors launched, as it now seems something interesting is happening there as a couple of models have hyper-threading enabled.
A user called J_C_W from our colleagues in the Dutch HWI forums noticed the HT enabled Pentiums on the Intel ARK. The models with Hyper-threading would be the:
- Pentium G4560
- Pentium G4560T
- Pentium G4600
- Pentium G4600T
- Pentium G4620.
Historically the last generations Pentium processors only had two cores, and never ever had hyper-threading enabled. This new feature will make the 60 euro processors behave and likely perform at Core i3 level performance. The one thing the Pentium will not support is the AVX2 instruction set, which mainly is handy and very fast with video edition/transcoding. It might be a terrific processor for a low cost net-PC.
The HT enablement has been verified with Intel. It is not a typo in the ARK processor database.
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#5379780 Posted on: 01/09/2017 07:13 PM
Isn't the i3, Pentium with HT? Is Intel's plan to make all of their CPUs the same performance to see if marketing sells more than performance/price?
Isn't the i3, Pentium with HT? Is Intel's plan to make all of their CPUs the same performance to see if marketing sells more than performance/price?
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#5379785 Posted on: 01/09/2017 07:26 PM
For a moment I thought what year is this ...
Pentium 4 HT
For a moment I thought what year is this ...
Pentium 4 HT
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#5379791 Posted on: 01/09/2017 07:36 PM
i3's have Hyperthreading. Dual core with HT.
i5's do not have Hyperthreading, but have 4 physical cores. Quad core without HT.
My guess without looking at specs, the Pentium's still lack as much cache and do not have a turbo speed.
So Pentium´s are going to have HT while i3/5 won´t?... 
i3's have Hyperthreading. Dual core with HT.
i5's do not have Hyperthreading, but have 4 physical cores. Quad core without HT.
Isn't the i3, Pentium with HT? Is Intel's plan to make all of their CPUs the same performance to see if marketing sells more than performance/price?
My guess without looking at specs, the Pentium's still lack as much cache and do not have a turbo speed.
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#5379792 Posted on: 01/09/2017 07:37 PM
Won't this cannibalize i3's?
Won't this cannibalize i3's?
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So Pentium´s are going to have HT while i3/5 won´t?...