i7 7700 has 8 cores?

[Dani3108]

I bought an intel core i7 7700 (Non-K) last week. On intel ark it says that this processor has 4 cores. However, when I open up device manager, it displays 8 cores. I just wanna know if its a bug or actually my cpu has 8 cores. Thanks beforehand

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I used MSI Afterburner and the game is Overwatch

 

[Ecky]

Your CPU has 8 logical processors (8 hardware threads), but only 4 cores. This is caused by hyperthreading, which allows each core to run 2 threads concurrently.

 

[Dani3108]

That makes sense. Thank you Ecky!

 

[atljsf]

yes, system sees the 8 threads, 2 per each core as cores

so it counts not the 4 cores but the 8 threads as cores