Are sockets and cores the same?
Are sockets and cores the same? A socket is the physical socket where the physical CPU capsules are placed. A normal PC only have one socket. Cores are the number of CPU-cores per CPU capsule. A modern standard CPU for a standard PC usually have two or four cores. Does cores per socket affect performance? To summarize, this test demonstrates that changing the corespersocket configuration of a virtual machine does indeed have an impact on performance in the case when the manually configured virtual NUMA topology does not optimally match the physical NUMA topology. What does cores per socket mean?...