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Final Cut Activity showing 16 CPU’s
Using Snow Leopard and FCP 7 on an 8 core Mac Pro and the activity monitor is showing 16 CPUs – why, how?
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Hyperthreading? What’s the shown useage?
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The answer is As Ben writes Hypertreading, which is the possiblity to run 2 treads per core thus the reason why you see 16 cores. 8 of them beeing virtual. The processor in your machine is also able to shut down cores and increase the clock of the remaining core. That will increase the speed on programs that do not know how to use multiple processors or cores. I think it does it automatically. Better explanation via this link https://www.apple.com/macpro/features/processor.html
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