Re: Trying to understand dual core processors

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From: Steve
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:30

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"muzician21" <muzician21@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Trying to understand the breakdown of things as far as dual core
> systems. Things got a little murky for me since it isn't simply
> Pentium -whatever- and an ever higher gig number.
>
> I've got a 2.4 gig P4. How does that compare both to early dual cores
> and to whatever the current fastest processors are?
>
> Is there good a site that shows the breakdown of things as far as the
> history of processors to present day?
>
> Thanks

My E7300 dual core is about 6 times quicker than my old system using an 
AthlonXP 2.4Ghz on pure processing tasks like RAW conversion and video 
encoding.  P4s were only a little quicker generally, so perhaps there's a 
5:1 ratio in performance approximately.

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