INTEL THREAD DIRECTOR TECHNOLOGY: THE REAL SAUCE ENABLING HYBRID PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES
Now, packing two different core types doesn’t automatically solve how the instructions, threads and the operating system manage this new hybrid setup. Enter the new Intel Thread Director Technology, which is a new crucial hardware solution needed for dynamic handling instructions/threads to prioritise them accurately and assign them to an appropriate core to achieve the best efficiency while considering the task priority at hand, performance needs (whether it’s a background or foreground task), core temp/power states and much more without user input.
Essentially, Intel Thread Director monitors all runtime instructions and their mix with extreme precision and provides runtime feedback to the OS to optimise the schedule decision of any workload.
With Windows 11 on the horizon, Intel assured that the upcoming OS is much more adept at handling tasks and processes to better benefit the hardware used. As a result, Intel Thread Director technology (and the resulting thread director hints) along with Windows 11 work together hand in hand to achieve the best performance efficiency yet. Windows developers can also specify QOS (quality of service) required and call up the right kind of core as they take advantage of the updated software compilers to target these new CPUs, which might soon be the new normal.