ay indirectly by reducing bottlenecks.
This high speed, point-to-point link offers 48 times faster communication speed between the integrated circuits than most of the current technologies. This optimized architecture at the board level offers several benefits such as:
- Lowest latency possible
- Highest bandwidth
- Scalability in performance
- Flexibility in design and
- PCI or Peripheral Component Interconnect compatibility.
All of these can be achieved within a single framework or system architecture that does not result in any performance burdens or constraints.
With the bottlenecks reduced due to lower number of buses in the system, this helps in designing much faster microprocessors that can be used easily in the high-end systems.
Most importantly, the HyperTransport technology is extensible to the Systems Network Architecture or SNA buses which help it in maintaining compatibility with the legacy buses that are more extensively used in the computer systems.
Therefore, if you simply consider the usefulness of these two technologies, it can be said that:
- HyperTransport technology is useful for any type of software or programs running on the computer because it is transparent to the system and
- Hyperthreading technology is useful only while running CPU or GPU intensive tasks on the computer and during multitasking.
Ideally, considering the computing needs of the users these days, it is much better and more productive to use a processor that comes with both hyperthreading as well as HyperTransport technology.
However, the final decision and choice is yours and should be based on your computing needs, the type of tasks performed and your convenience and preferences.
Both hyperthreading and HyperTransport are very useful technologies to have in a processor that will enable it to enhance its performance level by a significant margin by acting in perfect tandem.
It will be very useful for especially those users who do a lot of multitasking using a high-end computer system.