[citation][nom]Razor512[/nom]knowing AMD, it is probably 2 cores pretending to be 4 because their stupid marketing team decided, hey lets double one of the components that goes into a core then we can call this quad core CPU an 8 core.Imagine if other businesses were allowed to do that.Order 2 hamburgers and you only get 1 hamburger + an extra half a bun.Or you go to the store and buy a 2 pack of toothpaste and when you open the box you find that it is really just 1 tube with 2 caps on it.If you look at the benchmarks for their new FX series of CPU you will see that the performance of their 8 core CPU ranges from being that of a 4 core CPU and for a select few processing tasks that take advantage of the fraction of an additional core that they added, then you get small boost causing about 1-2 cores of additional performance (overall the FX 8 core cant beat the phenom II x6 chips consistently enough to be considered a better chip[/citation]
its 2 core and 2 logical, because they have more of a core than intel, they can call it quad core, and in some applications it beats intels threading solution, if refined well enough, would dance circles around intel. but lets look at firefox, its a web browser that is developed to still work on a pentium (old cpu, not the new line) processor, or at least has the legacy code still in it. for the software to evolve to really take advantage of amd, would take years.