02-26-2009, 07:28 PM
kabantik Wrote:most multi cores have lower clockspeeds and therefore lower capssimply wrong. modern cpus do not need high clockspeeds to be fast. since intel abandoned netburst by introducing the "core" architecture the cpu clock is no longer a hint for the speed of the cpu (as it was already before with amd cpus).
a single (!) core of my (not very recent) core duo (without the 2!) laptop at 1.77 GHz easily outperforms a Pentium 4 with 3 GHz.
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