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12 Answers 12. You have to look at sockets and cores per socket. In this case you have 1 physical CPU (socket) which has 4 cores (cores per socket). I have one socket, two cpus per socket, so that would mean a total of 2.
Multiple cores is like many CPUs in one. Not all cores are always used, but each core can be calculating its own thread of data rather than relying on one central unit. For example, one program's data can be calculated on one core, such as a game, and the OS on another, which brings efficiency.