Question 4 cores, 8 logical processors

[McJames]

So I have an AMD FX-8320E and from what I know it has 8 cores and 8 threads but I am a little confused, since when I go to task manager > performance, I see that it says 4 cores and 8 logical processors. What does this means? Is my CPU using all it cores/threads?

 

[Remeca]

Some Windows hardware detection software get confused by the shared compute units, and count 2 cores+1 CU as 1 core 2 threads.

 

[McJames]

Some Windows hardware detection software get confused by the shared compute units, and count 2 cores+1 CU as 1 core 2 threads.

So this is nothing to worry about right?

 

[Remeca]

No, it's normal behaviour for that series of CPU. It doesn't change the multicore performance.

 

[clutchc]

+1^
The FX series of processors had 4 "modules". Each containing 2 integer unit processors. Win 10 sees the modules as "cores". My FX 8350 shows the same thing.