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Article #114Re: Trying to understand dual core processors
From: Sinner
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:46
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:46
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"Steve" <sbrads24DELETETHISBIT@ukfsn.org> wrote in message news:gp3n87$v11$1@localhost.localdomain... > > "muzician21" <muzician21@yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:2b848985-e443-4f11-ae06-b40d51ce5419@b16g2000yqb.googlegroups.com... >> 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. > Stupid Bastard!
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