diff --git a/test/e2e_node/topology_manager_metrics_test.go b/test/e2e_node/topology_manager_metrics_test.go
index 8e6480ec123..fe17ad9c9fc 100644
--- a/test/e2e_node/topology_manager_metrics_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e_node/topology_manager_metrics_test.go
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("Topology Manager Metrics [Serial] [Feature:TopologyManager]
 	ginkgo.Context("when querying /metrics", func() {
 		var oldCfg *kubeletconfig.KubeletConfiguration
 		var testPod *v1.Pod
-		var cpusNumPerNUMA, numaNodes int
+		var cpusNumPerNUMA, coresNumPerNUMA, numaNodes, threadsPerCore int
 
 		ginkgo.BeforeEach(func(ctx context.Context) {
 			var err error
@@ -50,13 +50,16 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("Topology Manager Metrics [Serial] [Feature:TopologyManager]
 				framework.ExpectNoError(err)
 			}
 
-			numaNodes, cpusNumPerNUMA = hostCheck()
+			numaNodes, coresNumPerNUMA, threadsPerCore = hostCheck()
+			cpusNumPerNUMA = coresNumPerNUMA * threadsPerCore
 
 			// It is safe to assume that the CPUs are distributed equally across
 			// NUMA nodes and therefore number of CPUs on all NUMA nodes are same
 			// so we just check the CPUs on the first NUMA node
 
 			framework.Logf("numaNodes on the system %d", numaNodes)
+			framework.Logf("Cores per NUMA on the system %d", coresNumPerNUMA)
+			framework.Logf("Threads per Core on the system %d", threadsPerCore)
 			framework.Logf("CPUs per NUMA on the system %d", cpusNumPerNUMA)
 
 			policy := topologymanager.PolicySingleNumaNode
@@ -151,7 +154,7 @@ var _ = SIGDescribe("Topology Manager Metrics [Serial] [Feature:TopologyManager]
 	})
 })
 
-func hostCheck() (int, int) {
+func hostCheck() (int, int, int) {
 	// this is a very rough check. We just want to rule out system that does NOT have
 	// multi-NUMA nodes or at least 4 cores
 
@@ -165,7 +168,9 @@ func hostCheck() (int, int) {
 		e2eskipper.Skipf("this test is intended to be run on a system with at least %d cores per socket", minCoreCount)
 	}
 
-	return numaNodes, coreCount
+	threadsPerCore := detectThreadPerCore()
+
+	return numaNodes, coreCount, threadsPerCore
 }
 
 func checkMetricValueGreaterThan(value interface{}) types.GomegaMatcher {
diff --git a/test/e2e_node/topology_manager_test.go b/test/e2e_node/topology_manager_test.go
index 65c643168af..eddf264aa2b 100644
--- a/test/e2e_node/topology_manager_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e_node/topology_manager_test.go
@@ -88,6 +88,16 @@ func detectCoresPerSocket() int {
 	return coreCount
 }
 
+func detectThreadPerCore() int {
+	outData, err := exec.Command("/bin/sh", "-c", "lscpu | grep \"Thread(s) per core:\" | cut -d \":\" -f 2").Output()
+	framework.ExpectNoError(err)
+
+	threadCount, err := strconv.Atoi(strings.TrimSpace(string(outData)))
+	framework.ExpectNoError(err)
+
+	return threadCount
+}
+
 func makeContainers(ctnCmd string, ctnAttributes []tmCtnAttribute) (ctns []v1.Container) {
 	for _, ctnAttr := range ctnAttributes {
 		ctn := v1.Container{