Question about the Bazzite Hardware Compatibility list regarding CPUs

Hello all, I am looking into Bazzite for a PC or two that don't support Windows 11 so I had a look through the hardware requirements: https://docs.bazzite.gg/Gaming/Hardware_compatibility_for_gaming/ (please ignore all other requirements for this thread please, I only want to know more about the CPU requirement)
As I understand, even vulkan 1.2. is not enough, so Polaris is the minimum (and pretty modern!) I suppose. However, I feel the CPU requirement is quite the opposite with a '2 GHz quadcore'. I have two questions regarding this CPU requirement:
  1. I suppose primarily you are limited by CPU instruction sets (and ipc, general performance etc), right? As long as your PC supports UEFI, you're good to go then?
  2. How much of a requirement would the 'quadcore' bit be? Is a hyperthreaded dual core in spec too or do you need four physical cores? And what can you expect from dualcores without hyperthreading?
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