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hwloc lstopo vs Coreinfo: catalog facts
hwloc lstopo	Coreinfo
Free Free and open source under the BSD-3-Clause licence.	Free Free download from Microsoft Sysinternals.
Android	Windows, Command line
Shows cores, caches and memory nodes in one diagram Built on hwloc, a long-running and actively released project	Shows the mapping of logical processors to cores, NUMA nodes, sockets and caches Both command-line and graphical versions in one download
Information is technical and aimed at developers Only shows topology, not live usage or temperatures	Windows only Virtualization features can be misreported when a hypervisor is running or inside a virtual machine
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Closed source
License: BSD-3-Clause	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 8, 2026

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