Alereon posted:

An additional complication is that higher-end Intel CPUs use a technology called HyperThreading that allows each CPU core to work on two tasks at once, appearing as two cores to Windows. This improves performance by about 10%, as the core can immediately begin working on the other task as soon as the first has to pause to wait for data for example. Overall, this means that a system with 32 cores in Windows probably has two CPU sockets with 8 physical cores each, but appearing as 16 logical cores each to Windows.