Jet Posted December 3, 2004 Share Posted December 3, 2004 I have just recently gotten a new machine and it has the amd64 with Hypertransport Technology. Is this something that just works, or is there some sort of setting that needs to be done to activate it? Jet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidR Posted December 5, 2004 Share Posted December 5, 2004 It just works. It's the interconnect for some motherboard components, and can't be turned off in the BIOS. The "other" HT is Intel's Hyperthreading which is switched on/off in the BIOS. It allows greater thread-level parallelism, which means that the CPU can run more threads at a time (Task Manager will show 2 CPUs instaed of 1 on a single-CPU system), although the 2nd "CPU" is much slower. Our mental ray tests show a 15-20% boost, but it depends on your scene. Hypertransport will be in the next nVidia chipset for Intel(!), and will be the first time both HTs will be in one PC. I wonder how the marketing guys will resolve this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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