• 2 physical, 8 logical. We can tell the # of each from SQL...

    -- cpu overview

    SELECT osi.cpu_count AS LogicalCpuCount,

    osi.hyperthread_ratio AS HyperthreadCoreRatio,

    osi.cpu_count / osi.hyperthread_ratio AS PhysicalCpuCount,

    (

    SELECT COUNT(*)

    FROM sys.dm_os_schedulers

    WHERE scheduler_id < osi.cpu_count

    AND is_online = 1

    ) AS LogicalCpuOnline

    FROM sys.dm_os_sys_info osi;

    ...however not whether the logical CPUs are from multiple cores or from Hyperthreading. In your case you have 2 physical CPUs with 4 cores each and all SQL Server cares about is the logical CPUs when it comes to parallelizing queries, i.e. 8.

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