Comment Comment by PathOfEclipse Can you provide some links for this? A quick web search turns this up at near the top from 2024:https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-9700x-perform...The benchmarks show a 10% drop in "application" performance when SMT is disabled, but an overall 1-3% increase in performance for games.From a hardware perspective, I can't imagine how it could be physically possible to double performance by enabling SMT. parent PathOfEclipse 1 year ago
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-9700x-perform...
The benchmarks show a 10% drop in "application" performance when SMT is disabled, but an overall 1-3% increase in performance for games.
From a hardware perspective, I can't imagine how it could be physically possible to double performance by enabling SMT.