Whats the difference between hyperthreading and dual core???

Answer 1

hyperthreading uses one processor as two while dual core processors have two processors in one place. The end results are basically the same, but hyperthreadding was intel's answer to haveing 2 processors before it came out with dual core processers.

Answer 2

Hyperthreading treats a single core processor as if it was two porcessors but slows it down. A dual core processor actually has two processors but is more expensive.

Answer 3

A bit hard to explain to the end-user what hyper-threading really does. Let's put it this way. Person A is the comlex thinker. Thinks out loads of stuff but isn't very swift at getting to the conclusion. Person B, however, takes everything simple and gets the job done much quicker than Person A. Person B lets a hand to Person A, giving them a small advice about how to hasten up their thinking. This is basically what hyper-threading is about. Imitating simple aperture CPUs in the way of doing multiple operations at the same time.

Dual Core is just having two people do the thinking.

Answer 4

hyperthreading is when you trick your computer into thinking you have two processor, when you really only have one. dual core is when you actually have two processors.

Answer 5

what mike said, haha