Single Core vs. Dual Core CPU speed ?
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AFAIUnderstand, a dual core CPU is somewhat a parallel processor. Is a single core CPU ( latest technology ) at a higher speed "better" than a dual core at lower speed ? For general softwares, made for single core CPU, I think it will be better ? but for future softwares that will take advantage of better threading and parallelism, having a dualo core ( even at lower speed ) will be beter ? Thanks. M.
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AFAIUnderstand, a dual core CPU is somewhat a parallel processor. Is a single core CPU ( latest technology ) at a higher speed "better" than a dual core at lower speed ? For general softwares, made for single core CPU, I think it will be better ? but for future softwares that will take advantage of better threading and parallelism, having a dualo core ( even at lower speed ) will be beter ? Thanks. M.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
For single threaded apps a faster single core proc will generally be faster (the exception being if the SC is 10% faster than the DC%, but your background tasks are taking >10% of your CPU time. Visual studio can use multiple cores to accelerate compilation and new games are starting to to go multithreaded as well. Unless you're buying on a rapid upgrade cycle I'd prefer a dualcore solution for enhanced futureproofing. AMDs lowest cost DC chip is ~$300 (dunno the intel pricing but IIRC it's similar), so if you're on a tight budget spending the money on more/faster ram, etc might be a better option.
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AFAIUnderstand, a dual core CPU is somewhat a parallel processor. Is a single core CPU ( latest technology ) at a higher speed "better" than a dual core at lower speed ? For general softwares, made for single core CPU, I think it will be better ? but for future softwares that will take advantage of better threading and parallelism, having a dualo core ( even at lower speed ) will be beter ? Thanks. M.
Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad
Maximilien wrote:
AFAIUnderstand, a dual core CPU is somewhat a parallel processor.
From what I remember from my Parallel Computing lectures from uni. Dual core processors isn't strictly parallel processing.