Stupid Q 'bout Sisoft Sandra CPU-bench

A silly/stupid question:

What does the [2 SMT] mean when I compare my CPU to others in Sisoft Sandra?
Example:Intel Pentium 4-E [2 SMT] 550 3.4 GHz 1ML2 (Win32 x86/IA32)

/steimm

I think it is basically when HT is turned on. Guessing tho... so I am not sure.

Buhammot, you are correct. SMT stands for Simultaneos MultiThreading - for which hyper threading is intels marketing "buzzword." So in sandra, when you see anything that says [2 SMT] it means with SMT (Hyperthreading) enabled. You must remember that the results you're seeing however are not very accurate because HT can only be taken advantage of in SMT-enabled applications and the performance will vary because of it's dependency on the data being sent through the pipeline - one cache miss and you'll get a big performance hit.