A little puzzling...

[Grizzly]

... as I had mentioned in another thread, I bought myself a new Laptop. Finally I got it to run like I want it to (I installed a fresh copy of Windows 11 and abandoned the dual boot with Windows 10).
Now, my Laptop has an Intel CPU i7-1260p, formerly known as "Alder Lake". Here is my confusion: In the Device manager it shows 16 cores instead of 12 as it should. Even my CPU gadget shows 16 cores instead of 12.



Can anybody tell me why it is that way. Not that I am sad about it, it just puzzles me...

Intel® Core™ i7-1260P Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz) Product Specifications

Intel® Core™ i7-1260P Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz) quick reference guide including specifications, features, pricing, compatibility, design documentation, ordering codes, spec codes and more.

ark.intel.com

 

[Bighorn]

Some help:

Intel® Core™ i7-1260P Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz) Product Specifications

Intel® Core™ i7-1260P Processor (18M Cache, up to 4.70 GHz) quick reference guide including specifications, features, pricing, compatibility, design documentation, ordering codes, spec codes and more.

ark.intel.com

It probably is the count of 16 Total Threads instead of Cores.

CPU Specifications​

• Total Cores 12
• # of Performance-cores 4
• # of Efficient-cores 8
• Total Threads 16

 

[BigFeet]

The device manager shows total threads. Your 4 P cores are hyperthreaded, the E cores are not. So that equals 16 threads.

 

[Grizzly]

Interesting to know. That would explain it of course. Thanks for the info

 

[Grizzly]

This might explain it:



What the device manager is actually seeing are the Logical Processors, not the physical (12) ones.

 

[Bighorn]

My Vostro 5890 Desktop, Core i5 with 6 cores and 12 Logical processors:

 

[Xploit Machine]

laptop processor produced by Intel for socket BGA-1744 that has 12 cores and 16 threads ..the screenshot shows 16 is threads but not cores .. for example mine is 2 core with 4 threads .. so it's common