Comment by bonsai80

There are some comments here talking about the possibility of getting better performance without HT. Here's an article from a test (on Intel only) of that theory: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=intel-ht...

In the end, the conclusion is: "Long story short, Hyper Threading is still very much relevant in 2018 with current-generation Intel CPUs. In the threaded workloads that could scale past a few threads, HT/SMT on this Core i7 8700K processor yielded about a 30% performance improvement in many of these real-world test cases."