Hello everyone.
The Mixed Reality Forums here are no longer being used or maintained.
There are a few other places we would like to direct you to for support, both from Microsoft and from the community.
The first way we want to connect with you is our mixed reality developer program, which you can sign up for at https://aka.ms/IWantMR.
For technical questions, please use Stack Overflow, and tag your questions using either hololens or windows-mixed-reality.
If you want to join in discussions, please do so in the HoloDevelopers Slack, which you can join by going to https://aka.ms/holodevelopers, or in our Microsoft Tech Communities forums at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/mixed-reality/ct-p/MicrosoftMixedReality.
And always feel free to hit us up on Twitter @MxdRealityDev.
The Mixed Reality Forums here are no longer being used or maintained.
There are a few other places we would like to direct you to for support, both from Microsoft and from the community.
The first way we want to connect with you is our mixed reality developer program, which you can sign up for at https://aka.ms/IWantMR.
For technical questions, please use Stack Overflow, and tag your questions using either hololens or windows-mixed-reality.
If you want to join in discussions, please do so in the HoloDevelopers Slack, which you can join by going to https://aka.ms/holodevelopers, or in our Microsoft Tech Communities forums at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/mixed-reality/ct-p/MicrosoftMixedReality.
And always feel free to hit us up on Twitter @MxdRealityDev.
Options
How many processors and cores does HoloLens have?
Hi,
This page, https://developer.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/holographic/hardware_details#processors, uses the plural "Processors" rather than singular "Processor". Does that mean a HoloLens have two processors (One CPU with "Intel 32 bit architecture" and one HPU)? Or, it's just one HPU which uses "Intel 32 bit architecture"?
Also, I would like to know how many "cores" does each processor have. Is this information publicly available?
Thanks!
~h
0
Answers
The information is not on Microsoft's site but bits and pieces have been revealed/discovered:
This processor has 4 cores and is 4 thread capable.
Hi @PoshPorcupine Thanks for the info. I see a lot of conflicting information on the Web. Is this from a reliable source? (The primary reason why I am interested in this is to asses whether multi-threading is preferred (say, over using coroutine), as you also indicate in your post.) Thanks, ~h
I have not seen Microsoft officially say it, nor have I taken my HoloLens apart, but the sources I've seen stating these specs are ones I would consider reputable. Windows Central names the exact model, but does not state its source. So no I don't know what it is for sure...
It seems obvious that it is multithreaded based on responsiveness of the O/S, but the best evidence of this is that the Emulator that Microsoft created comes configured for 4 Virtual Processors.
If you are working within unity the use case for using Coroutines is more related to wanting something to execute over multiple frames instead of just within a frame. This manual page explains it pretty well with an example.
Just a question is the Intel Atom x5-Z8100 1.04 GHz the same as Intel Atom® x5-Z8500? it has the same architecture ?