I tested this some years ago on a raytracer, and got a tad over 50% more speed when enabling HT compared to disabling it.
As you say, the ray tracer did a lot of cache missing , interspersed with a fair bit of calculations. I'm guessing this is close to the ideal workload, as far as non-synthetic benchmarks go.
As you say, the ray tracer did a lot of cache missing , interspersed with a fair bit of calculations. I'm guessing this is close to the ideal workload, as far as non-synthetic benchmarks go.