There are still many inefficient applications which do not use the available CPU cores, confining their activities to “single thread” mode, using only a single core. Whither Adobe Photoshop CS4, with its gross underutilization of even two cores for many tasks? The emerging multi-core reality is the impetus for new technology from Apple, and increased attention from application developers to exploiting all that computing power. Future Intel chips will have even more cores. On each physical CPU, there can be more than one CPU core (“core”), with each core fully capable of running the entire system and applications all by itself.Īs of 2012, Intel chips used in Macs have 2/4/6/8/12 cores.

The MacBook Pro, MacBook, iMac all have a single CPU chip certain models of the Mac Pro (2012) have dual CPUs, each with four or eight cores. Updated - Send Feedback Related: bandwidth, CPU cores, laptop, Mac Pro, MacBook, memory, memory bandwidth, Photoshop, RAIDĬPU is a loosely-used term, but traditionally referred to a single physical computer chip, the computing brain inside your Mac.

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